Schistosomiasis — Assessing Progress toward the 2020 and 2025 Global Goals
Author(s) -
Arminder K. Deol,
Fiona Fleming,
Beatriz Calvo-Urbano,
Martin Walker,
Victor Bucumi,
Issah Gnandou,
Edridah M. Tukahebwa,
Samuel Jemu,
Upendo Mwingira,
Abdulhakeem Alkohlani,
Mahamadou Traoré,
Eugene Ruberanziza,
Seydou Touré,
Marı́a-Gloria Basáñez,
Michael D. French,
Joanne P. Webster
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
new england journal of medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 19.889
H-Index - 1030
eISSN - 1533-4406
pISSN - 0028-4793
DOI - 10.1056/nejmoa1812165
Subject(s) - schistosomiasis , public health , global health , disease control , neglected tropical diseases , political science , medicine , economic growth , environmental health , immunology , economics , nursing , helminths
With the vision of "a world free of schistosomiasis," the World Health Organization (WHO) set ambitious goals of control of this debilitating disease and its elimination as a public health problem by 2020 and 2025, respectively. As these milestones become imminent, and if programs are to succeed, it is important to evaluate the WHO programmatic guidelines empirically.
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