Open AccessSchistosomiasis control: moroccan experience compared to other endemic countries
Author(s) -
Zineb Tlamçani,
M. Errami
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
asian pacific journal of tropical disease
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.208
H-Index - 33
ISSN - 2222-1808
DOI - 10.1016/s2222-1808(14)60583-1
Subject(s) - schistosomiasis , endemic disease , neglected tropical diseases , indigenous , tropical disease , parasitic disease , endemic diseases , geography , environmental health , subtropics , tropical medicine , socioeconomics , medicine , environmental protection , disease , biology , helminths , immunology , ecology , pathology , sociology
Schistosomiasis or bilharzia is a tropical parasitic disease known as a water-borne trematode\udinfection. It is really regarded as a world health problem because it infects individuals from 76\udvarious countries, particularly in tropical and subtropical areas. Recent times have observed\uda significant decrease/drop in the prevalence and morbidity of the illness in a lot of these\udendemic countries. In Egypt, the prevalence was declined from 40% in 1967 to <3% in 2006\udafter the national control program started. Over a long period of time, Morocco was endemic\udfor shistosome infection. In 1973, Morocco made a decision to develop an approach to control\udand then to eliminate schistosomiasis by means of three main phases (control, elimination and\udafter that consolidation). From 2004 to now, it isn ’t declared any new indigenous case. Morocco\udaccomplishes the mission and consequently succeeds in reducing the prevalence of infection to\uda level of absolutely zero, therefore eliminating schistosomiasis all over the endemic geographic\udregions