Alleviating the impact of the geohelminthiases in the COVID-19 crisis

Alleviating geohelminthiases impact during 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is complicated. Various efforts have been made to reduce them. Chemoprevention such as annual or biennial mass preventive drugs (MPD) with albendazole mebendazole a single dose for at-risk populations, including preschool children, school-age adolescent girls, childbearing age women, and pregnant the form of short-term action. Long-term actions are providing clean water, improving sanitation toilets, banning on usage stool fertilizer, counseling healthy lifestyle (CHL) accompanied by implementing community based total (CBTS). The challenges them inconstancy in observing programs, chemoprevention coverage growth groups, drug resistance manifestation, weak diagnostic methods.