About the Authors

Antonio Montresor

montresora@who.int

Affiliation Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

David Addiss

Affiliation Children Without Worms, Task Force for Global Health, Decatur, Georgia, United States of America

Marco Albonico

Affiliation WHO Collaborating Centre for Neglected Tropical Diseases, Public Health Laboratory Ivo de Carneri, Zanzibar, United Republic of Tanzania

Said Mohammed Ali

Affiliation WHO Collaborating Centre for Neglected Tropical Diseases, Public Health Laboratory Ivo de Carneri, Zanzibar, United Republic of Tanzania

Steven K. Ault

Affiliation Neglected Infectious Diseases, Pan American Health Organization, World Health Regional Office for the Americas, Washington, DC, United States of America

Albis-Francesco Gabrielli

Affiliation Neglected Tropical Diseases, World Health Organization Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean, Cairo, Egypt

Amadou Garba

Affiliation Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

Elkhan Gasimov

Affiliation Malaria, Other Vectorborne and Parasitic Diseases, World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe, Copenhagen, Denmark

Theresa Gyorkos

Affiliation WHO Collaborating Centre for Research and Training in Parasite Epidemiology and Control, Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Mohamed Ahmed Jamsheed

Affiliation Vector-Borne and Neglected Tropical Diseases Control, World Health Organization Regional Office for South-East Asia, New Delhi, India

Bruno Levecke

Affiliation WHO Collaborating Centre for the Monitoring of Anthelminthic Drug Efficacy for Soil-Transmitted Helminthiasis, Department of Virology, Parasitology and Immunology, University of Ghent, Ghent, Belgium

Pamela Mbabazi

Affiliation Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

Denise Mupfasoni

Affiliation Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

Lorenzo Savioli

Affiliation Global Schistosomiasis Alliance and Public Health Laboratory Ivo de Carneri, Zanzibar, United Republic of Tanzania

Jozef Vercruysse

Affiliation WHO Collaborating Centre for the Monitoring of Anthelminthic Drug Efficacy for Soil-Transmitted Helminthiasis, Department of Virology, Parasitology and Immunology, University of Ghent, Ghent, Belgium

Aya Yajima

Affiliation Malaria, Other Vectorborne and Parasitic Diseases, World Health Organization, Regional Office for Western Pacific, Manila, Philippines

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.