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- Title
The challenge of unreported and unprogrammed deworming for soil-transmitted helminth control programs.
- Authors
Addiss, David G.
- Abstract
Soil-transmitted helminthiasis (STH) affects more than one billion people worldwide. WHO aims to control STH as a public health problem by providing periodic anthelminthic treatment to ≥75% of all at-risk children. Tracking progress toward this 2020 goal relies on accurate reporting of drug coverage. For STH, this is difficult because an unknown-but substantial-proportion of deworming occurs outside nationally-administered STH control programs, so-called 'unprogrammed deworming.' Further, coordination of intersectoral efforts needed to administer drugs to different risk groups-and to report coverage to WHO-is inadequate. This paper describes these challenges and offers suggestions to overcome them.
- Subjects
ANTHELMINTICS; ANTIPARASITIC agents; TROPICAL medicine; PUBLIC health; COMMUNICABLE diseases
- Publication
International Health (1876-3413), 2015, Vol 7, Issue 6, p377
- ISSN
1876-3413
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/inthealth/ihv055