Review A Research Agenda for Helminth Diseases of Humans: Health Research and Capacity Building in Disease- Endemic Countries for Helminthiases Control

Abstract: Capacity building in health research generally, and helminthiasis research particularly, is pivotal to the implementation of the research and development agenda for the control and elimination of human helminthiases that has been proposed thematically in the preceding reviews of this collection. Since helminth infections affect human populations particularly in marginalised and low-income regions of the world, they belong to the group of poverty-related infectious diseases, and their alleviation through research, policy, and practice is a sine qua non condition for the achievement of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals. Current efforts support-ing research capacity building specifically for the control of helminthiases have been devised and funded, almost in their entirety, by international donor agencies, majo