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Schistosomiasis and Soil-Transmitted Helminthiases: Number of People Treated in 2015

Friday, 9th of December 2016 Print

 

Schistosomiasis and Soil-Transmitted Helminthiases: Number of People Treated in 2015

From the Weekly Epidemiological Record

“In 2015, over 66.5 million individuals (53.2 million school-aged children and 13.3 million adults) received PC for schistosomiasis, and 711 million (150 million preschool-aged children 417 million school-aged children and 144 million women of child-bearing age) for soil transmitted helminths.”

Full text is at http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/251908/1/WER9149_50.pdf

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