The right to deworming: The case for girls and women of reproductive age

Theresa W Gyorkos; Antonio Montresor; Vicente Belizario; Beverley-Ann Biggs; Mark Bradley; Simon J Brooker; Martin Casapia; Philip Cooper; Sila Deb; Nicolas L Gilbert; Rubina Imtiaz; Virak Khieu; Stefanie Knopp; Ornella Lincetto; Layla S Mofid; Denise Mupfasoni; Cori Vail; Jozef Vercruysse

doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0006740

The right to deworming: The case for girls and women of reproductive age

PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2018 Nov 21;12(11):e0006740. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0006740. eCollection 2018 Nov.

Authors

Theresa W Gyorkos¹, Antonio Montresor², Vicente Belizario³, Beverley-Ann Biggs⁴, Mark Bradley⁵, Simon J Brooker⁶, Martin Casapia⁷, Philip Cooper⁸, Sila Deb⁹, Nicolas L Gilbert¹⁰, Rubina Imtiaz¹¹, Virak Khieu¹², Stefanie Knopp¹³, Ornella Lincetto¹⁴, Layla S Mofid¹⁰, Denise Mupfasoni², Cori Vail¹⁵, Jozef Vercruysse¹⁶

Affiliations

¹ World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Research and Training in Parasite Epidemiology and Control, Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
² Department of Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.
³ Department of Parasitology, College of Public Health, University of the Philippines-Manila, Philippines.
⁴ Department of Medicine, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia.
⁵ GlaxoSmithKline, Twickenham, United Kingdom.
⁶ Neglected Tropical Diseases-Global Health, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, Washington, United States of America.
⁷ Ciencias Médicas y de la Salud, Universidad Nacional de la Amazonia Peruana and Asociación Civil Selva Amazónica, Iquitos, Peru.
⁸ Department of Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases, St. George's, University of London, London, United Kingdom.
⁹ Child Health, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, New Delhi, India.
¹⁰ World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Research and Training in Parasite Epidemiology and Control, Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
¹¹ Children Without Worms, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America.
¹² National Helminth Control Programme, National Centre for Parasitology, Entomology and Malaria Control, Ministry of Health, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
¹³ Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institution and University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
¹⁴ Family, Women's and Children's Health, Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health, Policy, Planning and Programmes, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.
¹⁵ STH Global Public Health, Johnson and Johnson, Raritan, New Jersey, United States of America.
¹⁶ Department of Virology, Parasitology, and Immunology, Ghent University, Merelbeke, Belgium.

No abstract available

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Animals
Anthelmintics / administration & dosage*
Female
Helminthiasis / drug therapy*
Helminthiasis / parasitology
Helminthiasis / physiopathology
Helminths / drug effects
Helminths / physiology
Humans
Reproduction
Women's Health / legislation & jurisprudence*

Substances

Anthelmintics

Grants and funding

P50 AI098574/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/United States