Review of 2022 WHO guidelines on the control and elimination of schistosomiasis

NC Lo, FSM Bezerra, DG Colley… - The Lancet Infectious …, 2022 - thelancet.com
Schistosomiasis is a helminthiasis infecting approximately 250 million people worldwide. In
2001, the World Health Assembly (WHA) 54.19 resolution defined a new global strategy for …

Reaching the World Health Organization elimination targets for schistosomiasis: the importance of a One Health perspective

AV Díaz, M Walker, JP Webster - … Transactions of the …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The past three years has seen the launch of a new World Health Organization (WHO)
neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) roadmap, together with revised control and elimination …

Elimination of schistosomiasis in China: Current status and future prospects

W Wang, R Bergquist, CH King… - PLOS Neglected Tropical …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Elimination of schistosomiasis as a public health problem among all disease-endemic
countries in 2030 is an ambitious goal. Recent achievements resulting from mass drug …

Controlling schistosomiasis with praziquantel: How much longer without a viable alternative?

R Bergquist, J Utzinger, J Keiser - Infectious diseases of poverty, 2017 - Springer
The current approach of morbidity control of schistosomiasis, a helminth disease of poverty
with considerable public health and socioeconomic impact, is based on preventive …

Global assessment of schistosomiasis control over the past century shows targeting the snail intermediate host works best

SH Sokolow, CL Wood, IJ Jones… - PLoS neglected …, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Background Despite control efforts, human schistosomiasis remains prevalent throughout
Africa, Asia, and South America. The global schistosomiasis burden has changed little since …

Moving from control to elimination of schistosomiasis in sub-Saharan Africa: time to change and adapt strategies

LAT Tchuenté, D Rollinson, JR Stothard… - Infectious diseases of …, 2017 - mednexus.org
Schistosomiasis is a water borne parasitic disease of global importance and with ongoing
control the disease endemic landscape is changing. In sub-Saharan Africa, for example, the …

A call to strengthen the global strategy against schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted helminthiasis: the time is now

NC Lo, DG Addiss, PJ Hotez, CH King… - The Lancet infectious …, 2017 - thelancet.com
Summary In 2001, the World Health Assembly (WHA) passed the landmark WHA 54.19
resolution for global scale-up of mass administration of anthelmintic drugs for morbidity …

An update on female and male genital schistosomiasis and a call to integrate efforts to escalate diagnosis, treatment and awareness in endemic and non-endemic …

AL Bustinduy, B Randriansolo, AS Sturt… - Advances in …, 2022 - Elsevier
The last decades have brought important insight and updates in the diagnosis, management
and immunopathology of female genital schistosomiasis (FGS) and male genital …

Impact and cost-effectiveness of snail control to achieve disease control targets for schistosomiasis

NC Lo, D Gurarie, N Yoon… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
Schistosomiasis is a parasitic disease that affects over 240 million people globally. To
improve population-level disease control, there is growing interest in adding chemical …

Disease ecology, health and the environment: a framework to account for ecological and socio-economic drivers in the control of neglected tropical diseases

A Garchitorena, SH Sokolow… - … of the Royal …, 2017 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Reducing the burden of neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) is one of the key strategic
targets advanced by the Sustainable Development Goals. Despite the unprecedented effort …