ISNTD Connect GSA Webinar Series GSA and ISNTD schistosomiasis focused webinar series, using the ISNTD Connect platform and the GSA expert network.
30 Jun 2022 Announcing the GSA Strategy 2022-2025 Announcing the GSA's strategic plan 2022 - 2025. Working Together To Eliminate Schistosomiasis
Teacher Toolkits for Schistosomiasis A collection of urogenital, intestinal and mixed-infection Schistosomiasis Teacher Toolkit for teaching the Prevention, Control, and Treatment of Schistosomiasis in schools.
05 Apr 2021 Communication piece on commercially available diagnostic tests The GSA Diagnostics work stream has developed a communications piece listing all commercially available diagnostics for Schistosomiasis. Available in English, French, Spanish and Portuguese.
10 May 2023 Article | Behaviour change interventions for the control and elimination of schistosomiasis: A systematic review of evidence from low- and middle-income countries This study reviewed peer-reviewed publications released before June 2021 to assess the effectiveness of BC projects in decreasing risk practices and disease prevalence. Projects used four approaches: health education (HEIs), social-environmental (SEIs), physical-environmental (PEIs), and incentives-centred interventions (ICIs).
18 December 2023 GSA Early Career Researchers Online Cafe Meeting Report and Slides Report, slides and summary of findings from the Schistosomiasis Early Career Researchers Online Café.
02 Nov 2023 GSA Chicago Meeting Report and Slides The GSA hosted a special one-day meeting on the 18th of October in Chicago: Schistosomiasis: Celebrating Recent Achievements Supporting Elimination Goals. The meeting offered an opportunity to hear about the progress made by schistosomiasis programmes, celebrate ongoing work and consider some of the exciting research and developments that will help us reach the elimination targets. The meeting report and slides are shared here.
28 Jun 2023 Webinar | Where are the samples? Biobanks for NTD research and development In this ISNTDConnect webinar, we showcase the need for biorepositories and biobanks for research and development in NTDs.
22 Jun 2023 GSA Progress and Activity Report 2022-2023 In this progress and activity report the GSA highlight some of the key outputs from our activities in 2022 and operational strategy for 2023.
10 May 2023 Article | Behaviour change interventions for the control and elimination of schistosomiasis: A systematic review of evidence from low- and middle-income countries This study reviewed peer-reviewed publications released before June 2021 to assess the effectiveness of BC projects in decreasing risk practices and disease prevalence. Projects used four approaches: health education (HEIs), social-environmental (SEIs), physical-environmental (PEIs), and incentives-centred interventions (ICIs).
30 Nov 2022 NNN 2022 workshop report and slides: Cross-cutting approaches to mainstreaming NTDs: innovations, opportunities and limitations 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.
29 Nov 2022 Webinar | The Geshiyaro Project: integrating WASH & NTD to break helminths & schistosomiasis transmission In this ISNTD Connect session, Milkias Lakew and Endriyas Shobew present on behalf of World Vision Ethiopia on The Geshiyaro Project: breaking the transmission of soil-transmitted helminths and schistosomiasis through WASH-NTD integration
02 Aug 2022 GSA Annual Report 2021 Find out what the GSA working groups and network worked on in 2020-2021.
30 Jun 2022 GSA Strategy 2022-2025 GSA's strategic plan 2022 - 2025. Working Together To Eliminate Schistosomiasis
16 May 2022 Webinar | FreeBILy: diagnostic clinical trials for schistosomiasis This ISNTD Connect meeting takes a closer look at recent clinical trials towards new diagnostics for schistosomiasis, focusing on the freeBILy trial.
08 Mar 2022 Webinar | Panel - the urgency and practicalities of integrating Female Genital Schistosomiasis into Women’s Health & Primary care services 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.
01 Mar 2022 Webinar | Integrating prevention of Female Genital Schistosomiasis into women’s healthcare services in Côte D’Ivoire 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.
15 Dec 2021 Report | Putting Schistosomiasis Precision Mapping into Practice Precision mapping, or sub-district mapping, is recommended by the WHO and the GSA, and rolled out by national programmes in collaboration with partners as a method for refining a targeted treatment strategy, to ensure optimum treatment and improved efficiencies in resource utilization.
10 Dec 2021 Webinar | Citizen science and snail-borne diseases in Uganda: boosting data collection and empowering communities This webinar spotlights a citizen science approach to boosting snail intermediate host data collection and community engagement for getting closer to schistosomiasis elimination.
30 Nov 2021 Webinar | Schistosomiasis in the Philippines. The Struggle Never Stops In this ISNTD Connect and GSA collaborative webinar scientists discuss schistosomiasis control, elimination and innovation in the Philippines.
14 Sep 2021 Webinar | Biological control of schistosomiasis: potential, evidence and the way forward In this GSA - ISNTD Connect webinar, Prof Giulio de Leo, Dr Susanne Sokolow and Dr Nana Rose Diakité discuss biological control of schistosomiasis, learning from experiences in Senegal and Côte d'Ivoire.
22 Sep 2021 Research Links Session: Putting schistosomiasis mapping into practice Recording of the COR-NTD Research Links Series webinar about putting schistosomiasis precision mapping into practice.
18 May 2021 Webinar | The role of vaccines in the elimination of schistosomiasis The role of vaccines in the elimination of schistosomiasis, covering the feasibility of vaccines, from development, to delivery; calculating the cost-effectiveness of a range of vaccination programmes and modelling the level of efficacy required for impact.
07 Apr 2021 Webinar | Schistosomiasis in Malawi: future control isn’t quite like it used to be Highlighting ongoing epidemiological changes witnessed by better appreciation of male genital schistosomiasis, an outbreak of intestinal schistosomiasis and emergence of a novel set of hybrids schistosomes. Collectively, these dynamics require a broadening of future control interventions with wider intersectoral actions, ultimately adoption of a OneHealth approach.
05 Apr 2021 Communication piece on commercially available diagnostic tests The GSA Diagnostics work stream has developed a communications piece listing all commercially available diagnostics for Schistosomiasis. Available in English, French, Spanish and Portuguese.
22 Mar 2021 GSA Annual Report 2020 and Advisory Board Summary 2021 The Advisory Board met virtually with the GSA Executive on the 1st of March to review the GSA 2020 Annual Report and Operational Strategy for 2021.
08 Mar 2021 Webinar | #ChooseToChallenge inequity in NTD research 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.
03 Feb 2021 COR-NTD meeting: Developing a M&E framework for schistosomiasis and prioritizing operational research to achieve schistosomiasis elimination Drs Upendo Mwingira, Steffi Knopp, Fiona Fleming and the GSA team present findings from the COR NTD schistosomiasis elimination pre-meeting sessions and discuss the next steps in consolidating operational research questions into a pathway to develop an M&E framework for schistosomiasis elimination.
13 November 2020 COR NTD Developing a Monitoring and Evaluation framework for schistosomiasis elimination In this session at COR NTD, Drs Upendo Mwingira, Steffi Knopp, Fiona Fleming and the GSA team present findings from the COR NTD schistosomiasis elimination pre-meeting sessions and discuss the next steps in consolidating operational research questions into a pathway to develop an M&E framework for schistosomiasis elimination.
25 Oct 2020 Decision making in schistosomiasis: Biological thresholds & acceptable risk in the implementation of schistosomiasis control strategies. In this recording participants discuss establishing an evidence-based framework for monitoring and evaluation of schistosomiasis programs using currently available data and knowledge.
22 Oct 2020 Opposing misinformation for long-term health system gains. Dr 'Kuor Kumoji's talk on "Opposing misinformation", part of the COR NTD premeeting on Fake News and Trust in NTD Health Programs.
22 Oct 2020 Community-led health education Dr Justin Komguep Nono (Ministry of Scientific Research and Innovation of Cameroon) as part of the COR NTD premeeting on Fake News and Trust in NTDs Health Program.
22 Oct 2020 Insights from schistosomiasis MDA in Guinea Conakry A talk by Sightsavers' Cosmas Ndellejong as part of the COR NTD premeeting on Fake News and Trust in NTDs Health Program.
22 Oct 2020 Fake News & Trust in NTD Health Programs Together with the Global Schistosomiasis Alliance, the COR-NTD Secretariat hosted an online meeting on "Fake News & Trust in NTD Health Programs" to identify operational research questions for best practices in countering misinformation and empowering communities to identify fact from fiction, relative to NTD control programs.
7 October 2020 COR NTD - GSA Elimination of Schistosomiasis as a Public Health Problem In this GSA-COR NTD pre-meeting video, NTD programmes in Ethiopia, Malawi and Tanzania to share evidence on achieving elimination as a public health problem (EPHP) for schistosomiasis and what their current intervention decisions are when the target has been achieved. The session discusses from a programme perspective, what the main facilitators and barriers are to EPHP intervention decisions.
06 Oct 2020 COR NTD Integrated strategies for hotspots: beyond ecology and towards cross-cutting programmatic challenges The recording of COR NTD – STH Coalition and GSA pre-meeting session: Integrated strategies for hotspots: beyond ecology and towards cross-cutting programmatic challenges
18 Sep 2020 GSA-COR NTD: Approaching schistosomiasis elimination: from mass treatment to targeted interventions. In this GSA-COR NTD pre-meeting video, schistosomiasis experts discuss the existing and novel tools and strategies needed on the last mile towards interrupting transmission.
31 Aug 2020 Webinar | Rethinking WASH for the control and elimination of schistosomiasis. Yael Velleman (Director of Policy and Communications, SCI Foundation) and Gilbert Baayenda (Trachoma Program Officer & NTD/WASH Collaboration focal point at the Vector Borne and Neglected Tropical Diseases Division, Ministry of Health, Uganda) discuss "Rethinking WASH for the control and elimination of schistosomiasis".
27 Aug 2020 Webinar Climate change: helping or hindering Neglected Tropical Disease elimination? Dr Mark Booth from the Faculty of Medical Sciences at Newcastle University examines and discusses the impact of climate change on NTD elimination efforts.
4 June 2020 Where can a 50-year career in schistosomiasis take you geographically and scientifically? A conversation with Dr. Dan Colley "Where can a 50-year career in schistosomiasis take you geographically and scientifically?", a conversation with Dr. Dan Colley (Professor Emeritus of Microbiology at the University of Georgia) & Dr. Goylette Chami (Nuffield Department of Population Health at the University of Oxford).
18 May 2020 Schistosomiasis Control Leave No Age Group Behind 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.
04 May 2020 Webinar: Schistosomiasis treatment gaps hinder elimination efforts: a current perspective Derick Osakunor, from the University of Edinburgh, discusses the current treatment gaps in different age groups and how these are hindering the schistosomiasis goal of "elimination as a public health problem".
06 Mar 2020 GSA 2019 report and 2020 operational strategy GSA 2019 report and 2020 operational strategy.
3 February 2020 COR NTD workshop on Urban Schistosomiasis and Trachoma The GSA organised a COR NTD workshop on the Assessment of Schistosomiasis and Trachoma Distribution in Urban Areas for Targeted Intervention, on the 19th of November 2019.
10 December 2019 Teacher Toolkit for Urogenital Schistosomiasis Schistosomiasis Teacher Toolkit for Teaching about the Prevention, Control and Treatment of Urogenital Schistosomiasis
22 November 2019 The Importance of a Research Agenda for FGS A video highlighting the importance of a reseach agenda for Female Genital Schistosomiasis.
14 Oct 2019 GSA Training programme on epidemiology and control technology of African schistosomiasis A collection of presentations from GSA partners, members and observers, made for a requested training programme on the epidemiology and control of African schistosomiasis.
21 May 2019 Meeting report: Accelerating Progress for Schistosomiasis Control and Elimination Post-2020 The Global Schistosomiasis Alliance, hosted by the Ethiopian Federal Ministry of Health and working with the WHO NTD Department, held a consultation meeting with experts and stakeholders to provide feedback on the new proposed WHO goals for schistosomiasis and to discuss and agree on potential sub-targets and indicators for the new NTD Roadmap.
30 June 2019 Schistosomiasis Action Framework Portal The Action Framework is an internal tool for the schisto community to identify gaps and priorities.
28 February 2019 GSA 2018 report and operational plan for 2019 The GSA Advisory Board met with the GSA executive team on the 6th of February 2019 and reviewed activities and outputs from 2018 and the operational plan for 2019.
26 Sep 2018 GSA - NNN Behaviour Change Workshop The GSA Behaviour Change and Health Education working group organised a workshop at the NTD NGO Network annual conference in Addis Ababa in september 2018. The workshop looked at Behavior Change: Practical education approaches, promotion strategies, and change interventions for improving the effectiveness of NTDs Programmes.
10 December 2018 Meeting Report:The Schistosomiasis Action Plan: Next Generation Research on the Road towards Elimination
31 January 2018 GSA Advisory Board Report In January 2018 the GSA Advisory Board convened and reviewed the GSA’s key activities in 2017 and its strategy and plans for 2018. A summary of the review along with key recommendations is available to view here.
01 August 2018 NTD Programme Managers Side Meeting: Where, when and how can schistosomiasis be eliminated On the 18th of July the GSA hosted a joint meeting with ESPEN at the NTD Programme Managers meeting in Kigali Rwanda, entitled: "Where, when and how can schistosomiasis be eliminated" You can download the meeting report here.
9 June 2018 Schistosomiasis Strategic Action Plan Moving Schistosomiasis Out of the Red: Action Plan and Next Steps GSA partners and stakeholders meeting to refine and adopt a Strategic Action Plan for schistosomiasis control and elimination and discuss the identification of key next steps in putting the plan into practice.
09 June 2018 Plan d’Action de la Schistosomiase GSA réunion d'affiner et d’adopter un Plan d’Action Stratégique pour le control et l’élimination de la schistosomiase et pour identifier les étapes principales à venir dans l’application de ce plan.
03 September 2018 GSA 5th Newlsetter The 5th volume of the GSA newsletter covering the Schistosomiasis Action Plan, Female Genital Schistosomiasis (FGS) and other schistosomiasis related news from the WHO and our alliance partners.
23 March 2017 Report: Together fighting Schistosomiasis and Making Schistory We are delighted to share the Making Schistory report, filled with information, info-graphics and the motivating, passionate stories of people across the world fighting this debilitating disease. Together we will consigne schistosomiasis to history!
10 November 2017 GSA Schistosomiasis Control and Elimination: Next Steps Meeting Report The Global Schistosomiasis Alliance organised and hosted a meeting, 'Schistosomiasis Control and Elimination: Next Steps' on the 5th of November in Baltimore, after Cor NTD and before ASTMH. Read the report here.
