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Introduction: Opportunities to work together: intestinal helminth control and programmes to eliminate lymphatic filariasis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 June 2001

B.L. CLINE
Affiliation:
Department of Tropical Medicine, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
L. SAVIOLI
Affiliation:
Communicable Diseases Control, Prevention and Eradication, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
M. NEIRA
Affiliation:
Communicable Diseases Control, Prevention and Eradication, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

Abstract

The purpose of this brief introduction to the supplement that follows is to highlight the current unique opportunity to coordinate intestinal helminth control programmes with the relatively new global initiative to eliminate lymphatic filariasis. Such synergy at global, regional, national and local levels has the potential to greatly enhance the impact, decrease the cost and facilitate sustainability in both of these health programmes.

Type
Research article
Copyright
© 2001 Cambridge University Press

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