Epidemic status and key tasks for the control and elimination of key parasitic diseases in China
After more than 70 years of effective control programme,China has made remarkable achievements in the control of key parasitic diseases,and is moving towards the goal of control and elimination.This paper ana-lyzes the epidemic status and challenges of schistosomiasis,malaria,echinococcosis,leishmaniasis,clonorchiasis and soil-transmitted helminthiasis in recent years,and puts forward the future directions and key tasks of those diseases,in or-der to provide reference for accelerating the control and elimination programmes on key parasitic diseases in China.