A research agenda for helminth diseases of humans: towards control and elimination.

ABSTRACT: Human helminthiases are of considerable public health importance in sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, and Latin America. The acknowledgement of the disease burden due to helminth infections, the availability of donated or affordable drugs that are mostly safe and moderately efficacious, and the implementation of viable mass drug administration (MDA) interventions have prompted the establishment of various large-scale control and elimination programmes. These programmes have benefited from improved epidemiological mapping of the infections, better understanding of the scope and limitations of currently available diagnostics and of the relationship between infection and morbidity, feasibility of community-directed or school-based interventions, and advances in the design of monitoring and evaluation

SUBMITTER: Boatin BA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3335858 | biostudies-literature | 2012

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature