Sampling strategies for monitoring and evaluation of morbidity targets for soil-transmitted helminths.

• Main Authors: Federica Giardina (Author), Luc E Coffeng (Author), Sam H Farrell (Author), Carolin Vegvari (Author), Marleen Werkman (Author), James E Truscott (Author), Roy M Anderson (Author), Sake J de Vlas (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2019-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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<h4>Background</h4>The current World Health Organization (WHO) target for the three major soil-transmitted helminth (STH) infections is to reduce prevalence of moderate-to-heavy infections to below 1% by 2020. In terms of monitoring and evaluation (M&E), the current WHO guidelines fo...