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Ascariasis

12.18.07
Neglected Diseases and Poverty in "The Other America": The Greatest Health Disparity in the U.S.?
Just as the poorest people in the low-income countries of Africa, Asia, and Central and South America have the highest rates of the NTDs, there is evidence to suggest that large numbers of the poorest Americans living in the US also suffer from some of these unique infections.
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5.9.06
Incorporating a Rapid-Impact Package for NTDs with Programs for HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria
The last five years have witnessed increased efforts to improve the health of the 3 billion people living on less than US $2 a day. We are still in the early stages of appreciating the full extent of the comorbidity that occurs when the neglected tropical diseases are superimposed on the "Big Three" (HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria).
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November 1999
Can eradication of helminthic infections change the face of AIDS and tuberculosis? (148.01kb pdf)
Zvi Bentwich, Alexander Kalinkovich, Ziva Weisman, Gadi Borkow, Nulda Beyers and Albert D. Beyers
Immunology Today

October 2007
Oral Drug Therapy for Multiple Neglected Tropical Diseases (182.39kb pdf)
Madhuri Reddy, MD, MSc, Sudeep S. Gill, MD, MSc ,Sunila R. Kalkar, MBBS, MD ,Wei Wu, MSc, Peter J. Anderson, BA Paula A. Rochon, MD, MPH
The Journal of the American Medical Association

September 2007
Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases (290.23kb pdf)
Peter J. Hotez, M.D., Ph.D., David H. Molyneux, Ph.D., D.Sc., Alan Fenwick, Ph.D., Jacob Kumaresan, M.B., B.S., Dr.P.H., Sonia Ehrlich Sachs, M.D., Jeffrey D. Sachs, Ph.D., and Lorenzo Savioli, M.D
The New England Journal of Medicine

May 2006
Soil-transmitted helminth infections: ascariasis, trichuriasis, and hookworm (2.54mb pdf)
Jeff rey Bethony, Simon Brooker, Marco Albonico, Stefan M Geiger, Alex Loukas, David Diemert, Peter J Hotez
The Lancet

January 2001
Evaluation of efficacy of school-based anthelmintic treatments against anaemia in children in the United Republic of Tanzania (253.10kb pdf)
Helen L. Guyatt, Simon Brooker, Charles M. Kihamia, Andrew Hall, & Donald A.P. Bundy
Bulletin of the World Health Organization

May 2003
Could control of soil-transmitted helminthic infection influence the HIV/AIDS pandemic (303.63kb pdf)
John E. Fincham, M.B. Markus, V.J. Adams
Acta Tropica

November 2007
eveloping countries and neglected diseases: challenges and perspectives (124.85kb pdf)
Abdesslam Boutayeb
International Journal for Equity in Health

January 2007
The Neglected Tropical Diseases (95.21kb pdf)
Jeffrey D. Sachs
Scientific American

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