A call to strengthen the global strategy against schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted helminthiasis: the time is now.

ABSTRACT: In 2001, the World Health Assembly (WHA) passed the landmark WHA 54.19 resolution for global scale-up of mass administration of anthelmintic drugs for morbidity control of schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted helminthiasis, which affect more than 1·5 billion of the world's poorest people. Since then, more than a decade of research and experience has yielded crucial knowledge on the control and elimination of these helminthiases. However, the global strategy has remained largely unchanged since the original 2001 WHA resolution and associated WHO guidelines on preventive chemotherapy. In this Personal View, we highlight recent advances that, taken together, support a call to revise the global strategy and guidelines for preventive chemotherapy and complementary interventions against schistos

SUBMITTER: Lo NC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5280090 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature