Annual reported treatment coverage of eligible population of sentinel villages, and 2003 surveyed coverage.

Reported treatment of eligible (aged five and above healthy persons) populations in ten sentinel villages (SVs) based on registers kept by community directed volunteer drug distributors (CDDs). A confirmatory coverage survey undertaken in nine of the ten villages in 2003 showed an overall coverage of 82%, lower than the reported coverage that year of 90%. Gwamlar was not surveyed in 2003 due to insecurity. Babale, in the urban area of Jos North, did not get treated in 2009 due to civil unrest, and had the lowest surveyed coverage in 2003.*Antigen >25%.NA = Not applicable, in cells corresponding to the years before the MDA program in that SV had been launched.