Increasing efficiencies from integrating control and elimination programmes for soil-transmitted helminths and schistosomiasis

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 goals. This discussion piece links the parasitic worm diseases, caused by soil-transmitted helminths and schistosomes, highlighting that neglected tropical disease-control programmes could potentially benefit from greater cohesion and innovation, especially when increasing efforts to achieve elimination goals.

Automated summary

The implementation of the new WHO NTD Roadmap (2021-2030) provides an opportunity for single disease alliances and coalitions to integrate and adapt control and elimination programs. This discussion highlights the potential benefits of greater cohesion and innovation in neglected tropical disease-control programs when aiming to achieve elimination goals.