Abstract
Background: Children aged five years and below in schistosomiasis endemic areas spend several years living with the schistosome infections before they can be treated as they are excluded from school based mass drug administration programs. The WHO has recommended that these children be included in schistosomiasis preventive chemotherapy in endemic areas. Including these children in schistosomiasis control mass drug administration programs is a complicated task involving translating clinical studies into clinical practice processes, contextualizing clinical practice processes to the resources that are available in the community and economic evaluations. Methodology: We conducted a scoping search on google scholar and the concepts we searched for included implementation strategies, contextualization strategies, resource planning and economic evaluations in health care, risk and quality assessments. We then developed a conceptual framework and explained how the conceptual framework could be used to develop an implementation strategy for a mass drug administration for children aged five year and belowResults: The most common methods/frameworks that were identified in our search for health care implementation strategy development include the following: Donabedian framework, scoping review, FMEA, scenario planning, resource planning and economic evaluation of healthcare interventions and cost-effectiveness analysis.Conclusion: We concluded that the Donabedian framework can be modified and used in conjunction with scoping reviews, FMEA, scenario planning and economic evaluations to develop an implementation strategy for a schistosomiasis control MDA program for children aged five years old and below.
Uptake of Mass Drug Administration Programme for Schistosomiasis Control in Koome Islands, Central Uganda