Schistosomiasis - Assessing Progress toward the 2020 and 2025 Global Goals.

ABSTRACT:

Background

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.

Methods

We collated and analyzed multiyear cross-sectional data from nine national schistosomiasis control programs (in eight countries in sub-Saharan Africa and in Yemen). Data were analyzed according to schistosome species (Schistosoma mansoni or S. haematobium), number of treatment rounds, overall prevalence, and prevalence of heavy-intensity infection. Disease control was defined as

SUBMITTER: Deol AK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6785807 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature