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SUBMITTER: Lo NC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5280090 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Lo Nathan C NC Addiss David G DG Hotez Peter J PJ King Charles H CH Stothard J Russell JR Evans Darin S DS Colley Daniel G DG Lin William W Coulibaly Jean T JT Bustinduy Amaya L AL Raso Giovanna G Bendavid Eran E Bogoch Isaac I II Fenwick Alan A Savioli Lorenzo L Molyneux David D Utzinger Jürg J Andrews Jason R JR
The Lancet. Infectious diseases 20161130 2
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 t ...[more]