Increasing efficiencies from integrating control and elimination programmes for soil-transmitted helminths and schistosomiasis

Diagnostic tools for soil-transmitted helminths control and elimination programs: A pathway for diagnostic product development

Ethiopia Schistosomiasis and Soil-Transmitted helminths control programme; Progress, and prospect

Soil-transmitted helminths and schistosomiasis are among seventeen WHO prioritized neglected tropical diseases that infect humans. These parasitic infections can be treated using single-dose, safe and often donated drugs. Ethiopia successfully mapped the distribution of these infections nationwide. According to the mapping there are an estimated 38.3 million people living in schistosomiasis end...

Prevention and control of schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted helminthiasis

The burden of disease associated with helminth infections (schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted helminth (STH) infections) is enormous, with at least 2 billion people affected worldwide. This is being increasingly recognized as a significant public health problem, particularly in developing countries, where poverty, poor nutrition, inadequate sanitation, lack of clean drinking-water and minimal...

Prevention and control of schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted helminthiasis.

This report contains the recommendations of a WHO Expert Committee convened to consider the prevention and control of schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted helminth infections. Although these infections remain major public health concerns in many parts of the world, particularly in the poorest developing countries, cost-effective solutions are both available and deliverable. The report reviews t...

Mapping Soil Transmitted Helminths and Schistosomiasis under Uncertainty: A Systematic Review and Critical Appraisal of Evidence

BACKGROUND Spatial modelling of STH and schistosomiasis epidemiology is now commonplace. Spatial epidemiological studies help inform decisions regarding the number of people at risk as well as the geographic areas that need to be targeted with mass drug administration; however, limited attention has been given to propagated uncertainties, their interpretation, and consequences for the mapped va...