Schistosomiasis,one of the 17 neglected tropical diseases listed by the World Health Organization,presents a substantial public health and economic *** the 261 million people requiring preventive chemotherapy for schi...
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Schistosomiasis,one of the 17 neglected tropical diseases listed by the World Health Organization,presents a substantial public health and economic *** the 261 million people requiring preventive chemotherapy for schistosomiasis in 2013,92%of them lived in sub-Saharan Africa and only 12.7%received preventive ***,in 2010,the WHO reported that schistosomiasis mortality could be as high as 280000 per year in Africa *** May 2012 delegates to the sixty-fifth World Health Assembly adopted resolution WHA65.21 that called for the elimination of schistosomiasis,and foresees the regular treatment of at least 75%of school age children in at-risk *** resolution urged member states to intensify schistosomiasis control programmes and to initiate elimination campaigns where *** this,in June 2015,schistosomiasis was indicated to have the lowest level of preventive chemotherapy implementation in the spectrum of neglected tropical *** was also highlighted as the disease most lacking in *** is perhaps unsurprising,given that it was also the only NTD with access to drug donations but without a coalition of stakeholders that collaborates to boost commitment and *** a consequence,and to ensure that the WHO NTDs Roadmap Targets of 2012 and World Health Assembly Resolution WHA65.21 are met,the Global Schistosomiasis Alliance(GSA)has been set *** and representative,the GSA aims to be a partnership of endemic countries,academic and research institutions,international development agencies and foundations,international organizations,non-governmental development organizations,private sector companies and advocacy and resource mobilisation ***,the GSA calls for a partnership to work for the benefit of endemic countries by addressing health inequity and rural poverty.
School-aged children(SAC)have a considerable burden of intestinal schistosomiasis in Madagascar yet its burden in pre-school aged children(PSAC)is currently *** assess the at-risk status of PSAC,we undertook a pilot e...
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School-aged children(SAC)have a considerable burden of intestinal schistosomiasis in Madagascar yet its burden in pre-school aged children(PSAC)is currently *** assess the at-risk status of PSAC,we undertook a pilot epidemiological survey in June 2019 examining children(n=89),aged 2-4-years of balanced gender,in six remote villages in Marolambo District,*** included use of urine-circulating cathodic antigen(CCA)dipsticks and coproscopy of stool with duplicate Kato-Katz(K-K)thick smears.
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