The diseases recurrent diarrhoea and intestinal worm infections ( helminthiasis ) which are both linked to poor sanitation have been shown to contribute to child stunting.
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Helminthiasis has been found to result in poor birth outcome, poor cognitive development, poor school and work performance, poor socioeconomic development, and poverty.
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Most common medicinal applications are in the treatment of epilepsy, dysentery, stomach ache, insomnia, cataract, helminthiasis, rheumatism, ulcer and tuberculosis.
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"' Mundo Sano "'( communicable diseases such as dengue fever, Chagas disease, malaria, leishmaniasis and soil-transmitted helminthiasis.
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"' Helminthology "'is the study of parasitic worms ( helminths ), while helminthiasis describes the medical condition of being infected with helminths.
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CWW is an effort to make the world's children free of soil-transmitted helminthiasis so that they can grow, play, learn normally and enrich their communities.
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The medical condition associated with pinworm infestation is known as pinworm infection ( enterobiasis ) ( a type of helminthiasis ) or less precisely as oxyuriasis in reference to the family Oxyuridae.
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Soil-transmitted helminthiasis is classified as one of the neglected tropical diseases projected to be controlled / eradicated by 2020 through the " London Declaration on Neglected Tropical Diseases ".
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It is a primary manifestation of malnutrition ( or more precisely undernutrition ) and recurrent infections, such as diarrhea and helminthiasis, in early childhood and even before birth, due to malnutrition during fetal development brought on by a malnourished mother.
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The spread of many diseases ( e . g . soil-transmitted helminthiasis, diarrhea, schistosomiasis ) and chronic malnutrition in children which can be connected to a condition called environmental enteropathy is directly related to exposure to human feces.
