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2025
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Paul Kibati, Florence Wakesho, Stephen Mwatha, Denver Mariga et autres
BACKGROUND: The backbone of Kenya's soil-transmitted helminthiasis control program is the periodic distribution of anti-helminthic preventive chemotherapy (PC). PC distribution has been conducted since 2012 through the National School-Based Deworming Programme, which deworms school-age children (SAC, 5-14 years) living in areas at …
Kenya, Ouganda, us
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2023
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Sana Ashraf, Ammar Tahir, Asra Amjad, Shahid Hameed et autres
Sodium Arsenite is a potent toxic mutagenic and xenobiotic metalloid that has been increasing in the environment as a significant pollutant. Contamination of drinking water by chemicals containing arsenic is still a serious public health issue. Prolonged exposure to sodium arsenite can …
pk
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2022
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Joshua V. Garn, Jennifer L Wilkers, Ashley A. Meehan, Lisa Maria Pfadenhauer et autres
BACKGROUND: It is estimated that 1.5 billion people are infected with soil-transmitted helminths (STHs) worldwide. Re-infection occurs rapidly following deworming, and interruption of transmission is unlikely without complementary control efforts such as improvements in water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) access and behaviours. …
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2022
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Cara Tupps, Ibrahim Kargbo-Labour, Jusufu Paye, Sanjaya Dhakal et autres
In Sierra Leone, nationally powered school-based surveys have documented significant progress in the control of soil-transmitted helminthiasis (STH) and schistosomiasis. In order to assess the district-level prevalence and intensity of infection among key at-risk groups outside of school age children (SAC), we …
us, Sierra Leone
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2021
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David Rollinson, Girija Sankar, Mariana Stephens, Anouk Gouvras et autres
Abstract Attention is now beginning to focus on implementation of the new WHO NTD Roadmap (2021–2030), which presents single disease alliances and coalitions with an opportunity to consider novel ways to integrate and adapt control and elimination programmes to meet the new …
gb, us, Cameroun
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2020
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Sanjaya Dhakal, Mohammad Jahirul Karim, Abdullah Al Kawsar, Jasmine Irish et autres
In 2008, Bangladesh initiated Preventive Chemotherapy (PCT) for school-age children (SAC) through bi-annual school-based mass drug administration (MDA) to control Soil-Transmitted Helminth (STH) infections. In 2016, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare's Program on Lymphatic Filariasis Elimination and STH (ELFSTH) initiated …
us, bd
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2020
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Shahul H. Ebrahim, Ernesto Gozzer, Yusuf Ahmed, Rubina Imtiaz et autres
The relentless spread of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and its penetration into the least developed, fragile, and conflict-affected countries (LDFCAC) is a certainty. Expansion of the pandemic will be expedited by factors such as an abundance of at-risk populations, inadequate COVID-19 mitigation …
Mali, pe, Zambie, us, République démocratique du Congo, ch, sa
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2020
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Shahul H. Ebrahim, Yusuf Ahmed, Rubina Imtiaz
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to surge, the conjectured linkages between pandemics, fertility, and child health observed during the great depression of 1957 in the USA and the influenza pandemic of 1918 in the USA and Japan become highly relevant.1,2 From 1900s …
Mali, Zambie
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2020
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Shahul H. Ebrahim, N.M. Mujeeb Rahman, Rubina Imtiaz, Ernesto Gozzer et autres
The landfall of cyclone Amphan around the India and Bangladesh border on May 20, 2020, which resulted in the most severe storm in the region since 1999, highlights the limitations to standard disaster responses during pandemics such as the current COVID-19 crisis. …
Mali, us, pe, sa, Zambie
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2020
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Sanjaya Dhakal, Mohammad Jahirul Karim, Abdullah Al Kawsar, Jasmine Irish et autres
Abstract Introduction In 2008, Bangladesh initiated Preventive Chemotherapy (PCT) for school-age children (SAC) through bi-annual school-based mass drug administration (MDA) to control Soil-Transmitted Helminth (STH) infections. In 2016, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare’s Program on Lymphatic Filariasis Elimination and STH …
us, bd
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2020
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Shahul H. Ebrahim, Jiatong Zhuo, Ernesto Gozzer, Qanta A. A. Ahmed et autres
The COVID-19 pandemic can no longer be mitigated by a nationwide approach of individual nations alone. Given its scale and accelerating expansion, COVID-19 requires a coordinated and simultaneous Whole- of-World approach that galvanizes clear global leadership and solidarity from all governments of …
Mali, cn, pe, us, Zambie, gb, sa
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2020
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Piet Cools, Lisette van Lieshout, Rob Koelewijn, David G. Addiss et autres
BACKGROUND: Nucleic acid amplification tests (NAATs) are increasingly being used as diagnostic tools for soil-transmitted helminths (STHs; Ascaris lumbricoides, Trichuris trichiura, Necator americanus, Ancylostoma duodenale and A. ceylanicum), Strongyloides stercoralis and Schistosoma in human stool. Currently, there is a large diversity of …
be, nl, us, in, Éthiopie, Ouganda, au, Kenya, my
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