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Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH): a critical component for sustainable soil-transmitted helminth and schistosomiasis control

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Campbell, Suzy J.; Savage, Georgia B.; Gray, Darren J.; Atkinson, Jo-An M.; Soares Magalhaes, Ricardo; Nery, Susana V.; McCarthy, James S.; Velleman, Yael; Wicken, James H.; Traub, Rebecca J.; Williams, Gail M.; Andrews, Ross M.; Clements, Archie C. A.

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Soil-transmitted helminths (STH) and schistosomes are parasites that affect the world’s poorest people, causing losses of up to 39 million and 70 million disability adjusted life years (DALYs) respectively. The World Health Organization (WHO) is at the forefront of developing policy for the control of STH and schistosomiasis, advocating for chemotherapy as the cornerstone of control, with the objective of reducing infection-associated morbidity. Global uptake of chemotherapy with...[Show more]

dc.contributor.authorCampbell, Suzy J.
dc.contributor.authorSavage, Georgia B.
dc.contributor.authorGray, Darren J.
dc.contributor.authorAtkinson, Jo-An M.
dc.contributor.authorSoares Magalhaes, Ricardo
dc.contributor.authorNery, Susana V.
dc.contributor.authorMcCarthy, James S.
dc.contributor.authorVelleman, Yael
dc.contributor.authorWicken, James H.
dc.contributor.authorTraub, Rebecca J.
dc.contributor.authorWilliams, Gail M.
dc.contributor.authorAndrews, Ross M.
dc.contributor.authorClements, Archie C. A.
dc.date.accessioned2015-11-16T00:19:05Z
dc.date.available2015-11-16T00:19:05Z
dc.identifier.issn1935-2735
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/16489
dc.description.abstractSoil-transmitted helminths (STH) and schistosomes are parasites that affect the world’s poorest people, causing losses of up to 39 million and 70 million disability adjusted life years (DALYs) respectively. The World Health Organization (WHO) is at the forefront of developing policy for the control of STH and schistosomiasis, advocating for chemotherapy as the cornerstone of control, with the objective of reducing infection-associated morbidity. Global uptake of chemotherapy with albendazole or mebendazole for STH and praziquantel for schistosomiasis has significantly increased and remains the principal control strategy. It is cost-effective and reduces STH and schistosome infections in human hosts.
dc.description.sponsorshipSJC is funded by an Australian Postgraduate Award and a University of Queensland Advantage Scholarship, ACAC is an Australian National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Career Development Fellow (631619), RJSM is funded by a Post-doctoral Research Fellowship from the University of Queensland (41795457), JSM is an Australian National Health and Medical Research Council Practitioner Fellow, and DJG is an Australian Research Council (DECRA) Fellow. This work is funded by an NHMRC Partnership project in collaboration with WaterAid Australia.
dc.format5 pages
dc.publisherPublic Library of Science
dc.rights© 2014 Campbell et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
dc.sourcePLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
dc.subjectanimals
dc.subjectcommunicable disease control
dc.subjecthelminthiasis
dc.subjecthumans
dc.subjectsanitation
dc.subjectworld health organization
dc.subjecthealth policy
dc.subjecthygiene
dc.subjectwater purification
dc.titleWater, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH): a critical component for sustainable soil-transmitted helminth and schistosomiasis control
dc.typeJournal article
local.description.notesImported from ARIES. At the time of publication, Archie C. A. Clements was affiliated with the School of Population Health, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
local.identifier.citationvolume8
dc.date.issued2014-04-10
local.identifier.absfor111706
local.identifier.ariespublicationU3488905xPUB1257
local.publisher.urlhttps://www.plos.org/
local.type.statusPublished Version
local.contributor.affiliationCampbell, Suzy J, University of Queensland, Australia
local.contributor.affiliationSavage, Georgia B, Wateraid Australia, Australia
local.contributor.affiliationGray, Darren, University of Queensland, Australia
local.contributor.affiliationAtkinson, Jo-An, University of Queensland, Australia
local.contributor.affiliationMagalhaes, Ricardo Soares, The University of Queensland, Australia
local.contributor.affiliationNery, Susana V., University of Queensland, Australia
local.contributor.affiliationMcCarthy, James S., Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Australia
local.contributor.affiliationVelleman, Yael, Wateraid, United Kingdom
local.contributor.affiliationWicken, James H, Wateraid, Australia
local.contributor.affiliationTraub, Rebecca J, University of Queensland, Australia
local.contributor.affiliationWilliams, Gail, University of Queensland, Australia
local.contributor.affiliationAndrews, Ross, Menzies School of Health Research , Australia
local.contributor.affiliationClements, Archie, College of Medicine, Biology and Environment, CMBE Research School of Population Health, Natl Centre for Epidemiology & Population Health, The Australian National University
dc.relationhttp://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/631619
local.identifier.essn1935-2735
local.bibliographicCitation.issue4
local.bibliographicCitation.startpagee2651
local.identifier.doi10.1371/journal.pntd.0002651
dc.date.updated2015-12-10T10:22:55Z
local.identifier.scopusID2-s2.0-84901285643
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