Mass drug administration for falciparum malaria: a practical field manual

Mass drug administration (MDA) consists of administering a full therapeutic course of antimalarial medicine (irrespective of the presence of symptoms or infection) to a defined population living in a defined geographical area (except for those for whom the medicine is contraindicated) at approximately the same time and often repeated at intervals. Recent progress in malaria control, including the use of others forms of preventive chemotherapy such as intermittent prevent treatment of malaria in pregnancy and seasonal malaria chemoprevention, the drive towards elimination...