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For International Women's Day, COR-NTD and UK Aid from the UK government want to call your attention to a neglected tropical disease called female genital schistosomiasis. Not only is this disease life-altering, and stigmatizing but it’s also preventable. Help us shed light on FGS to beat NTDs.

Report and slides from the FGS integration section of the NNN workshop on Cross-cutting approaches to mainstreaming NTDs: innovations, opportunities and limitations led by Dr Victoria Gamba and Dr Akinola Oluwole with GSA and FIG.

Zambart, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Leiden University Medical Center and the Global Schistosomiasis Alliance hosted the inaugural workshop of the Genital Bilharzia in Southern Africa (BILGENSA) Research Network in Lusaka, Zambia and online. Slides avaialble here.

A manual on “Using Drama to Raise Awareness About Female Genital Schistosomiasis”.

Theory of Change of the FGS Integration Group, describing the challenge, the approach, desired outcomes, long term goal and impact.

The aim of this policy brief is to promote the regular deworming of adolescent girls and women of reproductive age.

Part 2 of our webinar series, Delivering on Women's Health, with ISNTD and SCI Foundation / La deuxième partie de notre nouvelle série de webinaires, Delivering on Women's Health, avec l'ISNTD et la Fondation SCI.

In this ISNTD-Connect webinar, we hear from Dr Kouamin, the Project Coordinator of the FGS pilot study, Mr Timite, a nurse in Soubré district, Dr Kane, doctor, Soubré district, Côte d’Ivoire and Ashley Preston, SCI Foundation, discuss learnings from a pilot project to improve preventive treatment coverage for women and to find the best approach for integration.

Addressing a silent and neglected scourge in sexual and reproductive health in Sub-Saharan Africa by development of training competencies to improve prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of female genital schistosomiasis (FGS) for health workers

In Cameroon, despite high community prevalences of urine-patent S. haematobium infections, FGS has yet to be studied in depth. To shed light on the clinical prevalence and socioeconomic effects of FGS, researchers undertook a formative community-based epidemiological and qualitative survey.

This short video introduces The FAST Package, a combination of proven interventions designed to reduce the impact of female genital schistosomiasis in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Ending the neglect to attain the Sustainable Development Goals: a sustainability framework for action against neglected tropical diseases 2021–2030 is a companion document to the road map for neglected tropical diseases 2021−2030.

This training guide supports the diagnosis and care of suspected female genital schistosomiasis and how to appropriately refer women or girls for further investigation when required.

International Women's Day panel, looking at the importance of having women from Neglected Tropical Disease (NTD) endemic countries working in, and leading, NTD research.

This is a review of studies of people living in sub-Saharan Africa coinfected with HIV and Schistosoma spp. between January 1996 and July 2018.

For World AIDS Day Prof Margaret Gyapong and Dr Amaya Bustinduy will talk about the impact of Female Genital Schistosomiasis on women, communites and global health.

This review aims to summarize the most common clinical manifestations of schistosomiasis in different populations of children (migrants versus returned travelers after short stays) with a proposed screening and treatment algorithm.

This blog post provides researchers’ reflections on the use of Stepping Stones, a participatory research method applied with health professionals to understand how to strengthen local health systems to manage cases of Female Genital Schistosomiasis (FGS).

As schistosomiasis poses a threat to people of all ages, unfortunate gaps exist in current treatment coverage and associated monitoring efforts, preventing subsequent health benefits to preschool-aged children as well as certain adolescents and adults.  Current omission of these age groups from treatment and monitoring exacerbates health inequities and has long-term consequences for sustainable schistosomiasis control.
 

Female genital schistosomiasis (FGS) is a neglected and disabling gynaecological disorder that is difficult to diagnose and is part of the wider spectrum of urogenital disease caused by the waterborne parasite Schistosoma haematobium. The Bilharzia and HIV (BILHIV) study evaluated home self-sampling genital collection methods for the diagnosis of FGS. Home based genital self-sampling for FGS diagnosis is highly acceptable. This scalable method may inform future efforts for community-based diagnosis of FGS.

This workshop was designed to contribute to capacity building of local health systems, focusing on an integrated and comprehensive health care approach for women’s health and helping to interlink management for individual diseases.

This discussion paper reviews the available evidence of how gender impacts NTDs risks and outcomes, highlights current data and implementation gaps and proposes a set of five recommendations as a way forward to better understand and act on the gender dimensions of NTDs.

The World Health Organization (WHO) and the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) have called for integrated efforts to address the disparate burden of diseases borne by women and girls in Africa.

A video highlighting the importance of a reseach agenda for Female Genital Schistosomiasis.

This review aims to provide a concise overview of associations between HIV and selected helminthic co-infections concerning aspects of HIV acquisition and transmission, clinical and immunological findings in co-infected individuals, as well as treatment and prevention efforts

Female genital schistosomiasis (FGS) is a neglected gynecologic condition and a cofactor of HIV across sub-Saharan Africa.

Female genital schistosomiasis (FGS), can triple the risk of women contracting HIV, yet safe and effective donated medicines are available but not currently reaching everyone. Read Uniting To Combat NTDs Policy Briefing to find out more.

Cet atlas de poche de la bilharziose génitale féminine a été élaboré comme une aide visuelle pour sensibiliser sur l’infection et faciliter le diagnostic clinique par les professionnels de santé travaillant dans des environnements à faibles ressources, en particulier dans les zones rurales où la bilharziose est endémique.

In a review of the studies on genital schistosomiasis, the cervix, the Fallopian tubes, and the vagina are the most common gynaecological sites to harbour Schistosoma haematobium.