In August 2015, the World Health Organization unveiled a global strategy and action plan to integrate WASH with other public health interventions in order to accelerate the elimination of NTDs. The plan aims to intensify control or eliminate certain NTDs in specific regions by 2020 and refers to the NTD "roadmap" milestones from 2012 that include, for example, eradication of dracunculiasis by 2015 and of yaws by 2020, elimination of trachoma and lymphatic filariasis as public health problems by 2020, and intensified control of dengue, schistosomiasis, and soil-transmitted helminthiases.World Health Organization (WHO) (2015): Water Sanitation and Hygiene for accelerating and sustaining progress on Neglected Tropical Diseases. A global strategy 2015–2020 . Geneva, Switzerland, p. 26
