Despite affecting an estimated 56 million women and girls across sub-Saharan Africa, Female Genital Schistosomiasis (FGS) ...

Female genital schistosomiasis, a neglected tropical disease, devastates women amid poor sanitation and medical misdiagnoses.

Female genital schistosomiasis causes pain, stigma, and poverty, yet remains misdiagnosed, misunderstood, and ignored.

In 2013, nearly one million school-aged children in these endemic areas were treated for schistosomiasis in Kenya.

1 Department of Epidemiology and Public Health ... S Knopp acknowledges additional financial support from the Schistosomiasis Consortium for Operational Research and Evaluation (sub-award no ...

Researchers at the Nigerian Institute of Medical Research, NIMR, have called for greater awareness and intervention on the prevalence and impact of Neglected Tropical Diseases, NTDs, in Nigeria.

This led to the widespread prevalence of schistosomiasis and other waterborne diseases on Pemba Island. The official added that the project has solved the drinking water problem and has the ...

Proven human infections are rare but serological prevalence indicates greater involvement than currently confirmed. Global estimates place approximately 1 billion people at risk of schistosomiasis, ...

Incorporating widespread snail control measures is also essential, as they have been shown to reduce prevalence by up to 92% in some programs, routine precision mapping for schistosomiasis, and ...

Schistosomiasis, an acute and chronic NTD, has posed a significant public health challenge in Ghana for over 50 years. A 2015 assessment revealed 3 high-prevalence districts, 54 moderate prevalence ...

Background: In 1970, Brazil implemented the Schistosomiasis Control Program (PCE, Portuguese acronym for Programa de Controle da Esquistossomose) was implemented in Brazil, where, through successive ...