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Filter by:The goal of this intervention study is to investigate the level of knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors of students on schistosomiasis in Pemba Island. It aims to test the effectiveness of establishing a widely applicable Community Health Volunteers model in the Zanzibar region and explore the feasibility of promoting this model in other areas of Africa. This study also aims to provide valuable insights and references for global schistosomiasis prevention and control efforts.
A cross-sectional survey will be conducted among 200 volunteering women aged 18- 45 years and having had prior sexual activity living in the target villages of Itilima and Maswa districts, North-western Tanzania. A single midday urine sample and two cervical-vaginal swabs (both self-collected and speculum-aided collected by a female healthcare worker) will be obtained from participating women and processed using urine filtration and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) for cervico-vaginal samples. A pre-tested structure questionnaire will be used to collect sociodemographic, clinical, and sampling acceptability information from participants.
Malaria remains a major health problem, especially in sub-Saharan Africa where more than 90% of the disease and deaths occur in children. Adding to this high burden among the children is the co-existence of intestinal and genito-urinary worms. Prominent among these are soil-transmitted helminths and schistosomiasis. Existing control programmes for the worms are operating below the expected level, despite the commitments and support that followed the 2012 London Declaration of achieving 75% treatment coverage by 2020. On the other hand, a malaria prevention programme, called Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention (SMC), introduced in the same year 2012 has achieved more than 75% treatment coverage and prevented 75-85% cases of uncomplicated and severe malaria in children. This encouraging development supports the need to explore the strategies involving the integration of worm control with successful platforms such as SMC. This would align worm and malaria control with the WHO road map for Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTD) of ending the neglect to attain Sustainable Development Goals by eradicating diseases of poverty and promoting health and well-being for those at risk. Given this context, it is important to develop a treatment approach that combines malaria and helminth control in an integrated framework that will be safe, effective and easy to deliver. This study will, therefore, investigate the feasibility and effectiveness of co-administration of anthelminthic and SMC drugs in a high-risk paediatric population living in a malaria-helminth co-endemic setting in Senegal, West Africa. This study is designed to test the hypothesis that co-administration of SMC and anthelminthic drugs will be safe and tolerated among children aged 1-14 years and that the incidence of side effects will not be significant. The objectives of this study are to assess the safety, tolerability, and effects of co-administration of SMC and anthelminthic drugs among the children
Knowledge, acceptability and perception of paediatric schistosomiasis and its treatment will be explored through a social science-driven mixed-methods approach within three endemic countries: Kenya, Uganda and Côte d'Ivoire.
The study will recruit up to 290 healthy adult males and non-pregnant females into a two-part clinical trial of a vaccine to protect against schistosomiasis caused by infection with S. mansoni. Two formulations of the Sm-TSP-2 vaccine will be tested: one using Alhydrogel® only, and one using Alhydrogel® plus AP 10-701, each at 3 different doses of antigen: 10mcg, 30mcg, and 100mcg. The first part of the study will be a Phase I dose-escalation safety and immunogenicity study followed by a Phase IIb trial in which a larger number of adults will be enrolled to assess the impact of the vaccine on infection with S. mansoni. The impact of the vaccine on infection with S. haematobium will also be assessed although this will be exploratory given that potential cross-protection against this species is only hypothetical at this point.
Schistosomiasis is a flatworm transmitted from freshwater snails to humans in the tropics. In addition to this infectious disease, tropical developing countries are faced with malnutrition. We propose to alter pesticide and compost use to reduce schistosomiasis and maintain or even improve crop production.
Previous research undertaken among adults in high endemic districts of Busia, Adjumani, Moyo and Nebbi reported unwillingness to take preventive treatment. A particular study conducted in primary schools of Jinja district showed that only 30% of school children took praziquantel during the 2011 Mass Drug Administration (MDA). Fear of side effects of praziquantel, lack of knowledge about schistosomiasis transmission and prevention and lack of teacher support were some of the major factors associated with the low uptake. Similar reasons for non-uptake have been reported elsewhere. Thus, measures are needed to increase uptake of Mass Drug Administration (MDA) in Uganda. There is no doubt that health education facilitates a better understanding of the obvious risks to health, including the knowledge of preventing parasitic infections among primary school children. Better compliance to treatment for schistosomiasis among school children can be achieved through implementing carefully designed programs involving face to face education methods. Increasing knowledge about schistosomiasis transmission and prevention and implementing measures to mitigate the side effects attributable to praziquantel, such as providing a snack prior to drug administration may improve uptake of the drug among school children. Hypothesis- Provision of a pre-treatment snack is effective in improving uptake of preventive treatment for intestinal schistosomiasis among primary school children.