| dc.description.abstract | Alleviating geohelminthiases impact during 2019
coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is complicated. Various
efforts have been made to reduce them.1
Chemoprevention such as annual or biennial mass
preventive drugs (MPD) with albendazole or
mebendazole as a single dose for at-risk populations,
including preschool children, school-age children,
adolescent girls, childbearing age women, and pregnant
women, is the form of short-term action. Long-term
actions are providing clean water, improving sanitation
and toilets, banning on the usage of stool as fertilizer, and
counseling on a clean and healthy lifestyle (CHL)
accompanied by implementing community based total
sanitation (CBTS). The challenges of them are
inconstancy in observing the programs, chemoprevention
coverage growth in at-risk groups, drug resistance
manifestation, and weak diagnostic methods.2 | en_US |
