District Level Management NTD Training Course Meeting NTD STAG, 29-30 April 2013, Geneva, Switzerland 1 District Level Management NTD Training Course Session 5.2: Determining Total Population in the catchment area Module 5 Programme operations and Logistics Revision:29.5.2015 (Global version)
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District Level Management NTD Training Course Meeting NTD STAG, 29-30 April 2013, Geneva, Switzerland 1
District Level Management NTD Training Course
Session 5.2:
Determining Total Population in the catchment area
Module 5
Programme operations and Logistics
Revision:29.5.2015 (Global version)
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Determining Total Population in the catchment area
Purpose:
This Unit aims at equipping learners with knowledge and skills on the essential field operations at district, sub-district and community levels in order to
determine total populations in their catchment areas.
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Learning objectives
At the end of this unit, learners will be able to • Explain the significance of determining populations
requiring preventive chemotherapy for the five PC-NTDs. • Conduct a census determining populations • Use census data for estimating requirement of PC
medicines and other supplies.
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Census Registration
• Census is undertaken to determine community populations when community distributors/ community health volunteers visit all the households in a community in order to count and register the people eligible to receive MDA (or everyone in the household)
• The census data is used to determine number of tablets required for treatment of each disease and estimate drug and other logistic requirement.
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Advantages and disadvantages of each Census method
Census type Advantage Disadvantage
Community census data
- More accurate if CDDs are well trained
- Not always updated by CDDs - May lead to under -estimation of
drugs and other Logistics
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Important definitions
• The total population comprises all those who are living in the community including pregnant and lactating women, children and sick people.
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Census/Medicine distribution form
• Community Register. 2013.xlsx
• Example from Tanzania (Community Distributor’s Version)
Use country specific census /medicine distribution form