Beneficial impacts of treatment and control of intestinal nematodes -- Global malnutrition -- Malnutrition and parasitic helminth infections -- Public health importance of hookworm disease -- Public health importance of ascaris lumbricoides -- Public health significance of trichuris trichiura -- Animal models of intestinal nematode infections of humans -- Tools for treating, preventing and eliminating lymphatic filariasis -- Albendazole: a review of anthelmintic safety and efficacy in humans -- Ivermectin: effectiveness in lymphatic filariasis -- Analysis of the safety of the single dose, two drug regimens used in programmes to eliminate lymphatic filariasis -- Salt fortified with diethylcarbamazine (DEC) as an effective intervention for lymphatic filariasis, with lessons learned from salt iodization programmes.