@article{27754,
  keywords = {World Health Organization, Water Purification, Sanitation, Hygiene, Humans, Helminthiasis, Health Policy, Communicable Disease Control, Animals},
  author = {Campbell S and Savage G and Gray D and Atkinson J and Soares Magalhaes R and Nery S and McCarthy J and Velleman Y and Wicken J and Traub R and Williams G and Andrews RM and Clements AC A},
  title = {Water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH): a critical component for sustainable soil-transmitted helminth and schistosomiasis control.},
  abstract = {<p>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 albendazole or mebendazole for STH and praziquantel for schistosomiasis has significantly increased and remains the principal control strategy. It is cost-effective&nbsp;and reduces STH and schistosome infections in human hosts.</p>
},
  year = {2014},
  journal = {PLoS neglected tropical diseases},
  volume = {8},
  pages = {e2651},
  issn = {1935-2735},
  url = {http://journals.plos.org/plosntds/article/asset?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pntd.0002651.PDF},
  doi = {10.1371/journal.pntd.0002651},
  language = {eng},
}