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Learning about schistosomiasis and its transmission is one way to empower children and communities to reduce their risk of getting the disease.

Learning and growing together we can beat schistosomiasis. Image copyright M. Perkins

Resources

Here is your one-stop-shop for resources on schistosomiasis.

The first section of the page highlights available resource collections. The second section of this webpage is a searchable collection of resources. You can search this collection by:

using a keyword (e.g. WHO, research, snails)
choosing from a dropdown menu list of themed Tags (Implementation, Behaviour Change, Research, Monitoring and Evaluation etc)
choosing from a dropdown menu list of Resource type (e.g. toolkits & guides, research article, strategy document, video etc)

And you can refine your search by Year.

We hope you find this useful. If you have any suggestions for useful resources that should be on this list please contact us by email: anouk [dot] gouvras [at] eliminateschisto [dot] org

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Resource Collection

Behaviour Change Collection

A collection of resources for enabling behaviour change for sustainable schistosomiasis control and elimination.

People washing and bathing in a natural lake. Image Credit Marcus Perkins and Merck KGaA

Genital Schistosomiasis Collection

A resource and article collection on Female Genital Schistosomiasis (FGS) and Male Genital Schistosomiasis (MGS).

Monitoring and Evaluation Collection

Here we bring together a collection of resources for monitoring and evaluation schistosomiasis control and elimination programmes.

WHO Collection

Collection of news, events, policy, strategy and resource documents from the World Health Organization

GSA Collection

Reports, news and events from the GSA.

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All Resources

21 November 2019

Discussion Paper: The Gender Dimensions of Neglected Tropical 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 Access and Delivery Partnership

APPG on Malaria and NTDs Meeting dicuss ASCEND

Meeting Report: APPG on Malaria and NTDs Meeting: The Launch of DFID’s Flagship Neglected Tropical Disease Programme, “ASCEND”

APPG on Malaria and NTDs

WHO publishes data quality evaluation manual

WHO publishes "Preventive Chemotherapy: Tools for improving the quality of reported data and information, A field manual for implementation"

Tool Kits and Guides

21 October 2019

Elimination of NTDs in Ethiopia - Woreda Level Coordination Toolkit for WASH & NTD Sectors

A woreda-level coordination toolkit for NTD and WASH sectors in Ethiopia.

Federal Ministry of Health Ethiopia & Parnters

Tool Kits and Guides

One lecture series on NTDs

An online lecture series on Neglected Tropical Diseases for the teaching and benefit of researchers, students, and staff in pharmaceutical companies, research institutions, and development organisations.

Tool Kits and Guides

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.

Tool Kits and Guides

Improving public health control of schistosomiasis with a modified WHO strategy: a model-based comparison study

This model-based comparison study compared the current WHO guideline-based strategies from 2012 to an alternative, adaptive decision making framework for control in heterogeneous environments, to estimate their predicted relative effectiveness and time to achievement of defined public health goals.

Peer-reviewed article

ESPEN Schistosomiasis MDA optimization tool

The WHO AFRO Expanded Special Project for the Elimination of NTDs has developed a new tool to support countries to optimize MDA implementation in the AFRO region.

Interactive Online Tool for WASH and NTDs

The new WHO and NTD NGO Network interactive online toolkit to build effective WASH-NTD partnerships is out now.

Tool Kits and Guides

Five-Year Impact of Different Multi-Year MDA Strategies on Childhood S. mansoni–Associated Morbidity: A Combined Analysis from the Schistosomiasis Consortium for Operational Research and Evaluation Cohort Studies in the Lake Victoria Regions

The Schistosomiasis Consortium for Operational Research and Evaluation implemented multi-country, cluster randomized trials to compare effectiveness of community-wide and school-based treatment (SBT) regimens on prevalence and intensity of schistosomiasis. The authors conclude that programs using annual CWT are likely to achieve better overall S. mansoni morbidity control than those implementing only biennial SBT.

The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Peer-reviewed article

STH Coalition: World Bank - Deworming Africa Webinar

STH Coalition webinar of the World Bank Deworming Africa Initiative

Pediatric Praziquantel for Schistosomiasis video

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