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close this bookCommunity-directed Treatment of Lymphatic Filariasis in Africa - Report of a multi-centre study in Ghana and Kenya (UNDP - WB - WHO, 2000, 44 p.)
close this folderREASONS FOR BETTER PERFORMANCE OF ComDT
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View the documentSocio-political set up
View the documentSatisfaction with ComDT

Commitment of those distributing

Whereas the implementation health staff saw the distribution exercise as an additional responsibility and were concerned about the effort involved, the drug distributors once they understood the concept saw it as something which if they did properly would benefit their community.

· “And also I should have been given some fuel money but because I was doing other programmes, I was unable to devote much time to that programme.” (Health worker)


· “I begun with one of the boy’s on my rounds but later, when I go and call him, he does not come, he said that there was nothing in the work like money, so he would not do the work, I also could not stop because I had decided to help out.” (CDD)