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

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

WHO comic Bambo has Bilharzia

WHO children's comic book "Bambo has bilharzia: what children should know about bilharzia"

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