About the Authors

Lorenzo Savioli

docsavioli@gmail.com

Current address: Retired, Chake Chake, Pemba Island, Zanzibar, Tanzania

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

Marco Albonico

Affiliation University of Torino, Torino, Italy

Denis Daumerie

Current address: Retired, Perya, Tamil Nadu, India

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

Nathan C. Lo

Affiliation Division of Epidemiology, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

J. Russell Stothard

Affiliation Department of Parasitology, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Samuel Asaolu

Affiliation Department of Zoology, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ife, Nigeria

Louis Albert Tchuem Tchuenté

Affiliation Faculty of Sciences, University of Yaoundé I, Yaoundé, Cameroon

Roy M. Anderson

Affiliation London Centre for Neglected Tropical Disease Research (LCNTDR), Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

JRS is Director of COUNTDOWN, which is an implementation research consortium funded by DFID, UK. LS and DD, as WHO Secretariat, and MA, as part of the writing committee, have been involved in publication of previous WHO documents on preventive chemotherapy for STH infections. RMA serves as the Non-Executive Director of GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), which had no role in the funding or preparation of this article. All other authors have declared that no competing interests exist.