Schistosomiasis - Assessing Progress toward the 2020 and 2025 Global Goals

This study collated and analyzed multiyear cross-sectional data from 9 national schistosomiasis control programmes

From:
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
Published
26 December 2019
Country:
Burkina Faso, Burundi, Malawi, Mali, Niger, Rwanda, Senegal, Tanzania, Uganda, Yemen
Document Type:
Journal Article
Theme:
Agriculture, Health
Authors:
Deol, A, Fleming, F, Calvo-Urbano, B, Walker, M

Abstract

With the vision of “a world free of schistosomiasis,” the World Health Organization (WHO) set ambitious goals of control of this debilitating disease and its elimination as a public health problem by 2020 and 2025, respectively. As these milestones become imminent, and if programs are to succeed, it is important to evaluate the WHO programmatic guidelines empirically.

We collated and analyzed multiyear cross-sectional data from 9 national schistosomiasis control programs (in 8 countries in sub-Saharan Africa and in Yemen).

This is a publication arising from the Zoonoses and Emerging Livestock Systems (ZELS) programme

Citation

Deol A, Fleming F, Calvo-Urbano B, Walker M, Bucumi V, Gnandou I, Tukahebwa E, Jemu S, Mwingira U, Alkohlani A, Traoré M, Ruberanziza E, Touré S, Basáñez M, French M, Webster J (2019). Schistosomiasis - Assessing Progress toward the 2020 and 2025 Global Goals. N Engl J Med. 381(26):2519-2528.

Schistosomiasis - Assessing Progress toward the 2020 and 2025 Global Goals

Published 26 December 2019
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