Gender issues in the community-directed treatment with ivermectin (CDTI) of the African Programme for Onchocerciasis Control (APOC).

2002 
AbstractThis paper reviews the issues relating to compliance and participation among the men and women of three countries within the remit of the African Programme for the Control of Onchocerciasis (APOC): Cameroon, Nigeria and Tanzania. Project-monitoring data from 109 focus-group discussions, 6069 household-survey respondents and 89 interviews with ivermectin distributors were analysed to gain an insight into the attitudes and behaviours of men and women in relation to ivermectin treatment and their participation in the programme. Although there are no statistically significant gender diVerences in coverages for ivermectin treatment, culturally prescribed gender relationships influence the ways in which men and women express and experience treatmentrelated behaviours. Gender roles also aVect participation in the programme. Decision-making in communities on the selection of distributors tends to follow socio–cultural hierarchies based upon patriarchy and gerontocracy. Relatively few ivermectin distributo...
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