Health promotion corner

  SOIL TRANSMITTED HELMINTHS: EFFECTS, PREVENTION AND CONTROL   Have you ever wondered why some people become lame, blind and or die from issues unnoticed? Soil transmitted helminths are a category among the neglected tropical disease burden that is most common in Africa.Approximately 1.5 billion people are infected with soil-transmitted helminths worldwide, making this the most common infection in the world.Soil-transmitted helminths mainly refer to the intestinal worms infecting humans that are transmitted through contaminated soil, it involves mainly three categories of the parasites that have the highest burden in the globe which include: Ascaris lumbricoides commonly known as ascaris, Trichuris trichiura commonly known the whip worm and the Ancylostoma duodenale and Necator americanus mainly referred to as the hookworms. The have been rendered neglected yet their have both economic, social and physical disorders rendered to the populations like blindness, disabilities and even