Controlling Disease due to Helminth Infections

During the past decade there have been major efforts to plan, implement, and sustain measures for reducing the burden of human disease that accompanies helminth infections. Further impetus was provided at the Fifty-fourth World Health Assembly, when WHO Member States were urged to ensure access to essential anthelminthic drugs in health services located where the parasites - schistosomes, roundworms, hookworms, and whipworms - are endemic. The Assembly stressed that provision should be made for