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When Should the Emphasis on Schistosomiasis Control Move to Elimination?
The stated goal of the World Health Organization’s program on schistosomiasis is paraphrased as follows: to control morbidity and eliminate transmission where feasible. Switching from a goal of controlling morbidity to interrupting transmission may well be currently feasible in some countries in the...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6161309/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30274481 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/tropicalmed3030085 |
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description | The stated goal of the World Health Organization’s program on schistosomiasis is paraphrased as follows: to control morbidity and eliminate transmission where feasible. Switching from a goal of controlling morbidity to interrupting transmission may well be currently feasible in some countries in the Caribbean, some areas in South America, northern Africa, and selected endemic areas in sub-Saharan Africa where there have been improvements in sanitation and access to clean water. However, in most of sub-Saharan Africa, where programmatic interventions still consist solely of annual mass drug administration, such a switch in strategies remains premature. There is a continued need for operational research on how best to reduce transmission to a point where interruption of transmission may be achievable. The level of infection at which it is feasible to transition from control to elimination must also be defined. In parallel, there is also a need to develop and evaluate approaches for achieving and validating elimination. There are currently neither evidence-based methods nor tools for breaking transmission or verifying that it has been accomplished. The basis for these statements stems from numerous studies that will be reviewed and summarized in this article; many, but not all of which were undertaken as part of SCORE, the Schistosomiasis Consortium for Operational Research and Evaluation. |
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spelling | pubmed-61613092018-10-01 When Should the Emphasis on Schistosomiasis Control Move to Elimination? Secor, W. Evan Colley, Daniel G. Trop Med Infect Dis Review The stated goal of the World Health Organization’s program on schistosomiasis is paraphrased as follows: to control morbidity and eliminate transmission where feasible. Switching from a goal of controlling morbidity to interrupting transmission may well be currently feasible in some countries in the Caribbean, some areas in South America, northern Africa, and selected endemic areas in sub-Saharan Africa where there have been improvements in sanitation and access to clean water. However, in most of sub-Saharan Africa, where programmatic interventions still consist solely of annual mass drug administration, such a switch in strategies remains premature. There is a continued need for operational research on how best to reduce transmission to a point where interruption of transmission may be achievable. The level of infection at which it is feasible to transition from control to elimination must also be defined. In parallel, there is also a need to develop and evaluate approaches for achieving and validating elimination. There are currently neither evidence-based methods nor tools for breaking transmission or verifying that it has been accomplished. The basis for these statements stems from numerous studies that will be reviewed and summarized in this article; many, but not all of which were undertaken as part of SCORE, the Schistosomiasis Consortium for Operational Research and Evaluation. MDPI 2018-08-15 /pmc/articles/PMC6161309/ /pubmed/30274481 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/tropicalmed3030085 Text en © 2018 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Review Secor, W. Evan Colley, Daniel G. When Should the Emphasis on Schistosomiasis Control Move to Elimination? |
title | When Should the Emphasis on Schistosomiasis Control Move to Elimination? |
title_full | When Should the Emphasis on Schistosomiasis Control Move to Elimination? |
title_fullStr | When Should the Emphasis on Schistosomiasis Control Move to Elimination? |
title_full_unstemmed | When Should the Emphasis on Schistosomiasis Control Move to Elimination? |
title_short | When Should the Emphasis on Schistosomiasis Control Move to Elimination? |
title_sort | when should the emphasis on schistosomiasis control move to elimination? |
topic | Review |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6161309/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30274481 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/tropicalmed3030085 |
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