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Panda BB, Krishnamoorthy K, Das A, Jain HK, Dixit S, Rahi M, Somalkar N, Mohanty S, Pati S, Ranjit M, Bal M. Mini-TAS as a confirmatory mapping tool for remapping areas with uncertain filarial endemicity to exclude/ include for mass drug administration: A report from field validation in India. PLoS One 2023; 18:e0293641. [PMID: 37922274 PMCID: PMC10624291 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0293641] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/12/2023] [Accepted: 10/17/2023] [Indexed: 11/05/2023] Open
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India has targeted elimination of lymphatic filariasis (LF) through mass drug administration (MDA) by 2027. Mapping of LF endemic areas is a priority for implementation of MDA. Current national LF remapping tool for unsurveyed/uncertain districts, have many limitations. The WHO has recommended a sensitive and rapid remapping protocol (Mini-TAS), that needs validation in Indian setting. Hence, in the present study a comparative assessment of these two protocols (national protocol vs Mini-TAS) was undertaken in two non-MDA districts of Odisha, with unknown filarial endemicity but reporting chronic cases. Purposive sampling was done in five top sites based on filarial case count as per the national protocol. Random 30 cluster survey was done by conducting school based Mini-TAS, Microfilariae (Mf) survey among adults (>10 years) in villages/wards with schools and Molecular Xenomonitoring (MX) of infection in vectors. Costing by activity and items of the surveys was acomplished using itemized cost menu. In Kalahandi, one of the five purposive sampling sites showed Mf prevalence above threshold (> 1%). But except Mini-TAS neither MX nor house-hold Mf survey among adults could detect the infection above the threshold. While in Balangir, Mf prevalence in all purposive sampling sites,Mini-TAS, Mf prevalence among adult and MX were above the respective thresholds confirming endemicity of LF in the district. The per sample cost of purposive sampling for Mf was the lowest INR 41, followed by adult Mf sampling INR 93. Mini-TAS and MX were expensive with INR 659 and 812 respectively. The study demonstrates that though all the sampling methods could detect filarial infection above the threshold in high-risk areas, Mini-TAS could only detect infection in low-risk areas. Therefore, in the national programme Mini-TAS can be used as a decision-making tool to determine whether to exclude/ include a district having uncertain endemicity for MDA.
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- Regional Medical Research Centre, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India
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- Regional Medical Research Centre, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India
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- Indian Council of Medical Research, New Delhi, India
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- Regional Office for Health & Family Welfare, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India
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- Regional Medical Research Centre, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India
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Graves PM, Joseph H, Coutts SP, Mayfield HJ, Maiava F, Ah Leong-Lui TA, Tupuimatagi Toelupe P, Toeaso Iosia V, Loau S, Pemita P, Naseri T, Thomsen R, Berg Soto A, Burkot TR, Wood P, Melrose W, Aratchige P, Capuano C, Kim SH, Ozaki M, Yajima A, Lammie PJ, Ottesen E, Hansell L, Baghirov R, Lau CL, Ichimori K. Control and elimination of lymphatic filariasis in Oceania: Prevalence, geographical distribution, mass drug administration, and surveillance in Samoa, 1998-2017. ADVANCES IN PARASITOLOGY 2021; 114:27-73. [PMID: 34696844 DOI: 10.1016/bs.apar.2021.03.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Lymphatic filariasis (LF) is a major public health problem globally and in the Pacific Region. The Global Programme to Eliminate LF has made great progress but LF is persistent and resurgent in some Pacific countries and territories. Samoa remains endemic for LF despite elimination efforts through multiple two-drug mass drug administrations (MDA) since 1965, including renewed elimination efforts started in 1999 under the Pacific Programme for Elimination of LF (PacELF). Despite eight rounds of national and two rounds of subnational MDA under PacELF, Samoa failed transmission assessment surveys (TAS) in all three evaluation units in 2017. In 2018, Samoa was the first to distribute countrywide triple-drug MDA using ivermectin, diethylcarbamazine (DEC), and albendazole. This paper provides a review of MDAs and historical survey results from 1998 to 2017 in Samoa and highlights lessons learnt from LF elimination efforts, including challenges and potential ways to overcome them to successfully achieve elimination.
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- Patricia M Graves
- College of Public Health, Medical and Veterinary Sciences, Australian Institute of Tropical Health and Medicine, and JCU WHO Collaborating Centre for Vector-Borne and Neglected Tropical Diseases, James Cook University, Cairns and Townsville, QLD, Australia.
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- Division of Population Health and Immunity, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research and Department of Medical Biology, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
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- Research School of Population Health, ANU College of Health and Medicine, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia
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- School of Public Health, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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- Ministry of Health and Health Services, Apia, Samoa
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- Ministry of Health and Health Services, Apia, Samoa
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- Ministry of Health and Health Services, Apia, Samoa
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- College of Public Health, Medical and Veterinary Sciences, Australian Institute of Tropical Health and Medicine, and JCU WHO Collaborating Centre for Vector-Borne and Neglected Tropical Diseases, James Cook University, Cairns and Townsville, QLD, Australia
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- College of Public Health, Medical and Veterinary Sciences, Australian Institute of Tropical Health and Medicine, and JCU WHO Collaborating Centre for Vector-Borne and Neglected Tropical Diseases, James Cook University, Cairns and Townsville, QLD, Australia
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- College of Public Health, Medical and Veterinary Sciences, Australian Institute of Tropical Health and Medicine, and JCU WHO Collaborating Centre for Vector-Borne and Neglected Tropical Diseases, James Cook University, Cairns and Townsville, QLD, Australia
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- College of Public Health, Medical and Veterinary Sciences, Australian Institute of Tropical Health and Medicine, and JCU WHO Collaborating Centre for Vector-Borne and Neglected Tropical Diseases, James Cook University, Cairns and Townsville, QLD, Australia
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- WHO Division of Pacific Technical Support, Suva, Fiji
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- WHO Division of Pacific Technical Support, Suva, Fiji
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- WHO Regional Office for the Western Pacific, Manila, Philippines
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- Task Force for Global Health, Atlanta, GA, United States
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- Research School of Population Health, ANU College of Health and Medicine, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia; School of Public Health, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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- College of Public Health, Medical and Veterinary Sciences, Australian Institute of Tropical Health and Medicine, and JCU WHO Collaborating Centre for Vector-Borne and Neglected Tropical Diseases, James Cook University, Cairns and Townsville, QLD, Australia
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Manolas RK, Kama M, Rainima-Qaniuci M, Bechu VD, Tuibeqa S, Winston MV, Ram N, Naqio F, Ichimori K, Capuano C, Ozaki M, Kim SH, Aratchige P, Sahukhan A, Graves PM. Lymphatic filariasis in Fiji: progress towards elimination, 1997-2007. Trop Med Health 2020; 48:88. [PMID: 33132735 PMCID: PMC7592542 DOI: 10.1186/s41182-020-00245-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/22/2020] [Accepted: 06/29/2020] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Background Lymphatic filariasis (LF) is a major public health problem in the Pacific Region, including in Fiji. Through transmission by the mosquito vector Aedes, Fiji has suffered the burden of remaining endemic with LF despite efforts at elimination prior to 1999. In the year 1999, Fiji agreed to take part in the Pacific Programme for Elimination of LF (PacELF) and the Global Programme to Eliminate LF. Methods This study reviewed and collated past data on LF in Fiji between 1997 and 2007. Sources included published papers as well as unpublished PacELF and WHO program meeting and survey reports. Records were held at Fiji’s Department of Health and Medical Services, James Cook University and the WHO office in Suva, Fiji. Results Baseline surveys between 1997 and 2002 showed that Fiji was highly endemic for LF with an estimated 16.6% of the population antigen positive and 6.3% microfilaria positive at that time. Five rounds of annual mass drug administration (MDA) using albendazole and diethylcarbamazine commenced in 2002. Programmatic coverage reported was 58–70% per year, but an independent coverage survey in 2006 in Northern Division after the fifth MDA suggested that actual coverage may have been higher. Monitoring of the program consisted of antigen prevalence surveys in all ages with sentinel and spot check surveys carried out in 2002 (pre MDA), 2004, and 2005, together with knowledge, attitude, and practice surveys. The stop-MDA survey (C survey) in 2007 was a nationwide stratified cluster survey of all ages according to PacELF guidelines, designed to sample by administrative division to identify areas still needing MDA. The national antigen prevalence in 2007 was reduced by more than a third to 9.5%, ranging from 0.9% in Western Division to 15.4% in Eastern Division, while microfilaria prevalence was reduced by almost four-fifths to 1.4%. Having not reached the target threshold of 1% prevalence in all ages, Fiji wisely decided to continue MDA after 2007 but to move from nationwide implementation to four (later five) separate evaluation units with independent timelines using global guidelines, building on program experience to put more emphasis on increasing coverage through prioritized communication strategies, community participation, and morbidity alleviation. Conclusion Fiji conducted nationwide MDA for LF annually between 2002 and 2006, monitored by extensive surveys of prevalence, knowledge, and coverage. From a high baseline prevalence in all divisions, large reductions in overall and age-specific prevalence were achieved, especially in the prevalence of microfilariae, but the threshold for stopping MDA was not reached. Fiji has a large rural and geographically widespread population, program management was not consistent over this period, and coverage achieved was likely not optimal in all areas. After learning from these many challenges and activities, Fiji was able to build on the progress achieved and the heterogeneity observed in prevalence to realign towards a more stratified and improved program after 2007. The information presented here will assist the country to progress towards validating elimination in subsequent years.
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- Rosie K Manolas
- College of Public Health, Medical and Veterinary Sciences and JCU WHO Collaborating Centre for Vector-Borne and Neglected Tropical Diseases, College of Public Health, James Cook University, Cairns and Townsville, Queensland Australia
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- Fiji Centre for Disease Control, Ministry of Health and Medical Services, Suva, Fiji
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- Fiji Centre for Disease Control, Ministry of Health and Medical Services, Suva, Fiji
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- Fiji Centre for Disease Control, Ministry of Health and Medical Services, Suva, Fiji
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- Fiji Centre for Disease Control, Ministry of Health and Medical Services, Suva, Fiji
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- Fiji Centre for Disease Control, Ministry of Health and Medical Services, Suva, Fiji
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- Fiji Centre for Disease Control, Ministry of Health and Medical Services, Suva, Fiji
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- WHO Office of Pacific Support, Suva, Fiji.,Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan
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- Department of Environmental Biology and Medical Parasitology, College of Medicine, Hanyang University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- Fiji Centre for Disease Control, Ministry of Health and Medical Services, Suva, Fiji
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- College of Public Health, Medical and Veterinary Sciences and JCU WHO Collaborating Centre for Vector-Borne and Neglected Tropical Diseases, College of Public Health, James Cook University, Cairns and Townsville, Queensland Australia
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