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Determining Soil-transmitted Helminth Infection Status and Physical Fitness of School-aged Children
Published on: August 22, 2012
Increasing efficiencies from integrating control and elimination programmes for soil-transmitted helminths and
David Rollinson1,2, Girija Sankar3, Mariana Stephens3
1Global Schistosomiasis Alliance, 22 Uxbridge Road, Ealing, London, W5 2RJUK.
Abstract:
Attention is now beginning to focus on implementation of the new WHO NTD Roadmap (2021-2030), which presents single disease alliances and coalitions with an opportunity to consider novel ways to integrate and adapt control and elimination programmes to meet the new goals. This discussion piece links the parasitic worm diseases, caused by soil-transmitted helminths and schistosomes, highlighting that neglected tropical disease-control programmes could potentially benefit from greater cohesion and innovation, especially when increasing efforts to achieve elimination goals.

