Helminth infections: Enabling the World Health Organization Road Map.

• Fill up empty drug development pipelines and expand treatment tool kits. • Actors across all fields require more collaborations. • Break disease silos since issues are often similar and linked. • Enable sustainable access to treatment. • Countries should foster patient and community autonomy. Helminthiases are considered among the most persistent public health problems. Control and/or elimination remains a global health challenge and the World Health Organization Road Map highlights critical gaps and actions required to reach the 2030 targets, among them the need for new and more effective treatment options. Stronger collaborations across different fields are required to reach these goals. The helminth elimination platform is one example of how knowledge of two different disease areas can be aligned to fuse expertise and break disease silos. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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