Collaboration with STH Coalition Partners and STH Experts yields important progress Experts are concerned about the potential emergence of drug resistance in the parasites that cause soil-transmitted helminthiasis (STH), a … Read more Human and Veterinary Scientists Address Potential Drug Resistance
Note: This article was updated on March 13, 2018 to reflect revised global coverage figures The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends countries with ≥20% prevalence of soil-transmitted helminthiasis (STH) at … Read more STH by the numbers: Mixed progress on preventive chemotherapy coverage among all children at risk of STH
The STH Advisory Committee is an independent group of experts in the areas of policy, strategy, research, and program implementation related to soil-transmitted helminthiasis control. Individual STHAC members are specialists … Read more Out Now: 2017 Advisory Committee Report
News reports swirled before Thanksgiving that a North Korean defector had 10-inch long parasitic worms (Ascaris lumbricoides) removed from his stomach after fleeing to the south. While shedding light on the … Read more North Korean Defector Sheds Light on a Significant Global Health Problem
By Grace Hollister, Evidence Action (STH Coalition partner) Parasitic worm infection, or soil-transmitted helminthiasis (STH), is one of the most prevalent causes of illness among the world’s poorest and most … Read more Essential ingredients: a framework for STH control programming
It’s an oft-quoted adage that “if you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it.” Nowhere is that maxim more firmly embraced than among the constellation of STH Coalition as they … Read more Progress, Partners and Promise: Mapping the Way Forward
STH Coalition partners, and increasingly ministry of health-led national STH programs it supports, aim to achieve the WHO-defined goal of eliminating STH as a public health problem by 2020. To achieve this … Read more STH Coalition to Provide Opportunities for Strengthening National STH Programs