Kepatuhan Masyarakat Terhadap Pengobatan Massal Filariasis Di Kabupaten Belitung Timur Tahun 2008

Mass Drug Administration (MDA) was conducted in Belitung Timur Regency from 2006 to 2007. The research was conducted to evaluation the MDA program I 2008. The number of people examined from 4 village were 2.064 people and out of this number 3 people were mf positive with the Mf rate was 0.15%. Compare with the result before this study, we find out that there are descent Mf rate from 2.52% in 2005 (before MDA) to 0.15% in 2008 (after MDA). The coverage of MDA in 2006 were 97.58% and decrease to 95.44% in 2007. The knowledge, attitude and perception of the respondents were generally moderate toward filarial transmission, but there are 17 respondents (4.4%) from 385 respondents was not receiving filarial drug when the MDA was going on. There are 14 respondents (3.6%) didn?t take the drug, the reason of respondents were: didn?t sick, confused, and fever.