Little girl looks up from her desk at school

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

Female genital schistosomiasis (FGS): from case reports to a call for concerted action against this neglected gynaecological disease

International Journal for Parasitology

Peer-reviewed article

WHO Pocket Atlas for Healthcare Professionals to Diagnose Female Genital Schistosomiasis (FGS)

This Female Genital Schistosomiasis Pocket Atlas has been developed as a visual aid to raise awareness of the infection and to facilitate clinical diagnosis by clinical health-care professionals working in low-resource settings, especially in rural areas where schistosomiasis is endemic.

WHO/Department of control of Neglected Tropical Diseases

Tool Kits and Guides

WHO WASH Global Strategy for NTDs

Water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) are critical in the prevention and care for all of the 17 neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) scheduled for intensified control or elimination by 2020.

30th January 2012

London Declaration on NTDs

On 30 January 2012, pharmaceutical companies, donors, endemic countries and non-government organisations came together to sign the London Declaration on Neglected Tropical Diseases. Together, they committed to control, eliminate or eradicate 10 diseases by 2020 and improve the lives of over a billion people.

Uniting to Combat NTDS

13 September 2013

Microscopy for intestinal schistosomiasis and STH

Jimma University in Ethiopia and Ghent University in Belgium

WHA Resolution on Elimination of Schistosomiasis

Helminth control in school age children: a guide for managers of control programmes

WHO/Department of control of neglected tropical diseases

Tool Kits and Guides

WHA Resolution on Schistosomiasis and STH

12 January 2012

WHO Roadmap on NTDs

World Health Organization. (‎2012)‎. Accelerating work to overcome the global impact of neglected tropical diseases : a roadmap for implementation : executive summary. Geneva : World Health Organization. http://www.who.int/iris/handle/10665/70809

WHO/Department of control of neglected tropical diseases

Schistosomiasis in Lake Victoria: A Community Health Volunteer's Story

A video from the End Fund documenting a community health volunteer's story about the impact of schistosomiasis on communities living around Lake Victoria and what she is doing to fight schistosomiasis.

WHO Schistosomiasis Strategic Plan 2012-2020

WHO/Department of control of neglected tropical diseases

13 January 2012

A review of female genital schistosomiasis

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.

Peer-reviewed article

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