The administration of drugs to whole populations irrespective of disease status is referred to as mass drug administration (MDA) or mass dispensing. This...

mass deworming can treat more people more cost-effectively than selective deworming. Mass deworming is one example of mass drug administration. Mass deworming...

effectiveness of mass drug administration may vary depending on the prevalence of malaria in the area. Other factors such as drug administration plus other...

have committed to donating all the drug therapies required, and mass drug administration efforts (for example, mass deworming) have been successful in...

The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA or US FDA) is a federal agency of the Department of Health and Human Services. The FDA is responsible...

groups of people regardless of symptoms via mass drug administration. The World Health Organization recommends mass treatments to all at-risk groups in endemic...

bacteria) is used. Antibiotic resistance Fecal bacteriotherapy Mass drug administration Multidrug resistance Pharmacoepidemiology Physical factors affecting...

stabilising fuel additive MDa, mega Dalton (unit), a non-SI unit of mass Mass drug administration Mean directional accuracy, a measure of prediction accuracy...

or both, for children and adults with O. volvulus infection. In mass drug administration (MDA) programmes, the treatment for onchocerciasis is ivermectin...

is more precise if in fact referring to a mass-produced product having a predetermined combination of drugs and respective dosages (as opposed to customized...

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) is a Nigerian federal agency under the Federal Ministry of Health that is responsible...

medicine, pharmaceutical drug, medicinal drug or simply drug) is a drug used to diagnose, cure, treat, or prevent disease. Drug therapy (pharmacotherapy)...

eliminate the disease, the Indian government provides mass drug administration (MDA) to achieve mass deworming. The treatment is a few pills taken once a...

is ineffective due to the high rate of reinfection. Large-scale mass drug administration strategies may be required where coordinated interventions aim...

receive the same media attention as the term "war on drugs". In the years since, presidential administrations and Congress have generally maintained or expanded...

filariasis, ivermectin is typically given as part of mass drug administration campaigns that distribute the drug to all members of a community affected by the...

Drug, and Cosmetic Act, which significantly increased the Food and Drug Administration's powers to regulate drugs. Aside from the Pure Food and Drug Act...

Lastly, with mass drug administration strategies and improved diagnosis and prompt treatment, detection of an emergence of antihelminthic drug resistance...

effect seen in mass drug administrations) and to prevent new infections (prophylaxis).[citation needed] IPTi using the antimalarial drug sulfadoxine/pyrimethamine...

(2019-03-04). "Ocular Chlamydia trachomatis infection: elimination with mass drug administration". Expert Review of Anti-infective Therapy. 17 (3): 189–200. doi:10...

orlistat, semaglutide, and tirzepatide are approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for weight management in combination with reduced-calorie diet...

about 2 to 3 cents per person per treatment. This is known as mass drug administration and is often carried out among school-age children. For this purpose...

requiring multiple drug doses over time in order to achieve long-term control. However, it is not known how many years of mass drug administration is required...

infections. The current control strategies include a combination of mass drug administration for children at age 4–6 years to prevent or eliminate N. americanus...

least one weight-related comorbidity. In March 2024, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) expanded the indication for semaglutide (Wegovy), in combination...

"Strongyloides seroprevalence before and after an ivermectin mass drug administration in a remote Australian Aboriginal community". PLOS Neglected Tropical...

data exists on the frequency of drug-facilitated sexual assaults involving the use of surreptitious drug administration, due to the report rate of assaults...

surrounding Richardson's suspension be re-examined. In May 2021, the Drug Enforcement Administration approved licensed facilities to grow cannabis for the purpose...

Poppers (or popper or poppe) is a slang term referring to recreational drugs belonging to the alkyl nitrite family of chemical compounds. When fumes from...

their mass drug administration programs due to success in elimination. India, Indonesia, East Timor, Nepal, and Myanmar are actively doing mass drug administration...