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A research and development agenda for the control and elimination of human helminthiases

Jürg Utzinger. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2012.

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Conflict of interest statement

J.U. served as a member on the Thematic Reference Group Environment, Agriculture and Human Health (TRG4), funded by the Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR), based at and executed by the World Health Organization (WHO), and co-sponsored by UNICEF, UNDP, the World Bank, and WHO.

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Figure 1

Figure 1. Stages of control/elimination of the six helminthiases emphasised by DRG4.

The schematic representation shows the different stages of a control programme (from morbidity to transmission control), including the extreme ends (i.e., no control, extent of the problem yet to be determined on the far left; and elimination on the far right). Colour codes of horizontal lines: black, global; blue, Latin America and Caribbean; red, sub-Saharan Africa; brown, Middle East and North Africa; green, Asia. Dashed lines indicate that, in some counties within a sub-region (or globally), the control/elimination is less or more advanced than in the sub-region (or globally) overall.

Figure 2

Figure 2. A research agenda for the control and elimination of major helminthiasis put forth by DRG4.

This figure synthesises the key written outputs from DRG4, visualising this collection of eight reviews as a house (strong foundation, major building blocks and a two-layered roof).

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