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Item Progress in the prevention and control of schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted helminthiasis(Societa Italiana di Medicina Tropicale, 2002) Albonico, M.; Engels, D.; Montresor, A.; Cromptons, D.W.T.; de Silva, N.R.; Savioli, L.ABSTRACT: In the last two decades important progress have been made in the understanding the epidemiology and the disease burden of schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted nematodes infection. In addition, practical tools for disease control have been developed and a strategy for the prevention and control of morbidy of schistosomaisis and soil-transmitted nematodes infection has been endorsed by the World Health Organization. This paper presents the recent progress in the prevention and control of these infections: the estimates of chronic and subtle morbidity in high risk groups and the evidence that these chronic and severe sequelae of infections can be reversed by appropriate treatment; the use of anthelminthic drugs during pregnancy and lactation; the relevance to control morbidity due to these infections also in pre-school children; the efficacy of anthelminthic drugs and the possible threat of drug resistance; price, quality and accessibility of treatment by delivering drugs through the school system and ways of reaching also non enrolled school-age children. Finally, the strategy, targets and recommendations of the World Health Organization for the control of schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted nematodes infection are described.Item Controlling lymphatic filariasis and soil-transmitted helminthiasis together in South Asia: opportunities and challenges(Oxford University Press, 2006) Padmasiri, E.A.; Montresor, A.; Biswas, G.; de Silva, N.R.Item Soil-transmitted helminth infections: updating the global picture(Elsevier, 2003) de Silva, N.R.; Brooker, S.; Hotez, P.J.; Montresor, A.; Engels, D.; Savioli, L.No Abstract AvailableItem Impact of mass chemotherapy for the control of filariasis on geohelminth infections in Sri Lanka(Academic Press, 2003) de Silva, N.R.; Pathmeswaran, A.; Fernando, S.D.; Weerasinghe, C.R.; Selvaratnam, R.R.; Padmasiri, E.A.; Montresor, A.No Abstract Available