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. 2018 Feb 12;12(2):e0006269. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0006269

Table 1. Estimated number of pregnant women in need of preventive chemotherapy for STH in areas where hookworm and T. trichiura prevalence is equal to, or greater than, 20%, 2015.

WHO Region Number of STH-endemic countries Estimated number of pregnant women
in need of PC for STH
Africa 42 15,384,000
Americas 25 544,000
Eastern Mediterranean 7 473,000
Europe 5 0
South-East Asia 8 7,433,000
Western Pacific 15 2,919,000
Total 102 26,753,000