Donald A P Bundy, Linda Schultz, Manos Antoninis, Fatoumata B M Barry, Carmen Burbano, Kevin Croke, Lesley Drake, John Gyapong, Carol Karutu, Jimmy Kihara, Mouhamadou Moustapha Lo, Prerna Makkar, Charles Mwandawiro, Suzy J Ossipow, Ana Ramos Bento, David Rollinson, Hemang Shah, Hugo C Turner
Global access to deworming treatment is one of the public health success stories of low-income countries in the twenty-first century. Parasitic worm infections are among the most ubiquitous chronic infections of humans, and early success with mass treatment programmes for these infections was the key catalyst for the neglected tropical disease (NTD) agenda. Since the launch of the 'London Declaration' in 2012, school-based deworming programmes have become the world's largest public health interventions. WHO estimates that by 2020, some 3...
October 9, 2023: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences