The development community needs to strengthen program monitoring to reach its goal of eliminating soil-transmitted helminthiasis as a public health problem. David Addiss, director of Children ...

Infestation of the body by parasitic intestinal worms is called helminthiasis. Roundworms, hookworms and whipworms are the most common worms that attack human beings. Worm infestation is more ...

Some of the prevalent NTDs in the country include elephantiasis, river blindness, trachoma, schistosomiasis, and soil-transmitted helminthiasis. Oyediran highlighted inadequate funding as the ...

Ubial said holding the campaign on a nationwide scale twice a year – every January and July – is more effective to eliminate soil-transmitted helminthiasis, especially since the country’s ...

To mark National Deworming Month, the DOH conducts mass drug administration in schools and communities every January and another round in July or every six months to reduce the spread of Soil ...

Genorga said Bicol had the highest number of Soil-Transmitted Helminthiasis (STH) infection cases in the country based on the 2013 to 2015 STH infection study. Other regions with a high prevalence ...