Mass drug administration (MDA) is a means of delivering safe and inexpensive essential
medicines based on the principles of preventive chemotherapy, where populations or sub …

Objectives: To summarize new knowledge on the range of disease due to chronic
schistosomiasis and examine the debilitating burden of both light and heavy infection; to …

PROGRESS REPORT 2001–2011 AND STRATEGIC PLAN 2012–2020 Page 1 Preventive
Chemotherapy and Transmission Control (PCT) Department of Control of Neglected Tropical …

Schistosomiasis is the second most important human parasitic disease in terms of
socioeconomic impact, causing great morbidity and mortality, predominantly across the …

Schistosomiasis remains one of the most prevalent parasitic diseases in developing
countries. After malaria, schistosomiasis is the most important tropical disease in terms of …

Objectives To summarise age‐and intensity‐stratified associations between human
hookworm infection and anaemia and to quantify the impact of treatment with the …

Despite new information that the disease burden of schistosomiasis in Africa may be
equivalent to malaria or HIV/AIDS and a simple annual anthelminthic treatment for this …

Hookworm infection and schistosomiasis rank among the most important health problems in
developing countries. Both cause anaemia and malnutrition, and schistosomiasis also …

The morbidity due to schistosomiasis has been shown to be greater than was previously
thought. The reduction in morbidity of schistosomiasis by control programmes has been …

This year, through mass drug administration, hundreds of millions of the world's poorest
people will receive a single annual dose of one or more drugs to treat their parasitic worm …