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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.

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

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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

Ending the neglect to attain the Sustainable Development Goals: A road map for neglected tropical diseases 2021–2030

The 146th session of WHO’s Executive Board, meeting in February 2020 requested the Director-General to develop, in consultations with Member States and stakeholders, the new road map for neglected tropical diseases for the period 2021–2030.

Connecting Female Genital Schistosomiasis and Menstrual Hygiene Initiatives

Effective future control of female genital schistosomiasis (FGS) requires an integrated and multisectoral approach, bringing together HIV, sexual and reproductive health, and reproductive rights sectors. In this article, an underappreciated but important connection between FGS and menstrual hygiene initiatives in Africa is highlighted.

Trends in Parasitology

Peer-reviewed article

Acceptability and feasibility of genital self-sampling for the diagnosis of female genital schistosomiasis: a cross-sectional study in Zambia

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.

Wellcome Open Research

Peer-reviewed article

Workshop on ‘Challenges for Women’s Health in sub-Saharan Africa'

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.

HelmVit Consortium

GSA 2019 report and 2020 operational strategy

GSA 2019 report and 2020 operational strategy.

Global Schistosomiasis Alliance

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.

30 January 2020

Beat NTDs: World NTD Day Symposium Video

The Task Force for Global Health organised a panel discussion for World NTD Day: Beat NTDs: World NTD Day Symposium

The TaskForce For Global Health

30 January 2020

Atlas of Schistosomiasis and Soil-Transmitted HelminthiasisTransmission in Cameroon

The atlas of schistososmiasis and STH transmission in Cameroon, an important tool to assist the ministry of health, decision makers and stakeholders with activites to control and eliminate these diseases.

MINSANTE and Centre Schistosomiasis & Parasitology

19 December 2019

Gender and neglected tropical disease front-line workers: Data from 16 countries

Delivery of preventive chemotherapy through mass drug administration (MDA) is used to control or eliminate five of the most common neglected tropical diseases (NTDs). The success of an MDA campaign relies on the ability of drug distributors and their supervisors—the NTD front-line workers—to reach populations at risk of NTDs. In the past, our understanding of the demographics of these workers has been limited, but with increased access to sex-disaggregated data, we begin to explore the implications of gender and sex for the success of NTD front-line workers.

Peer-reviewed article

16 December 2019

No more neglect. Female genital schistosomiasis and HIV.

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.

13 December 2019

WHO Weekly Epidemiological Record 2018

Schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted helminthiases: numbers of people treated in 2018

10 December 2019

"Two eggs which make you sick", a schistosomiasis booklet for children

Mimo, the jumping doctor explains about schistosomiasis, a children's health education book by Dr Enabulele.

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