Assessing expanded community wide treatment for schistosomiasis: Baseline infection status and self-reported risk factors in three communities from the Greater Accra region, Ghana

ConclusionThe communities targeted by this study showed a range ofSchistosoma prevalence ’s of infection, from hypo-endemic through to meso-endemic and hyper-endemic. The prevalence of SCH across the different age groups in the study locations highlights the large number of individuals currently being left out of the standard morbidity control method of annual treatment of the SAC.
Source: PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases - Category: Tropical Medicine Authors: Source Type: research