Contextualising schistosomiasis (bilharzia ... where the snail vectors involved in the parasite life cycle live. Mass drug administration, or ‘preventative chemotherapy’, is the large-scale ...

Once these flatworms are in the body, they develop into adult schistosomes and a person is then said to be suffering from Bilharzia or ... the parasite’s life-cycle. Those that remain become ...

Professor Farley describes how governments and organizations in Britain, the British colonies, the United States, Central and South America, South Africa, China, and the World Health Organization ...

TWENTY-THREE wards in Nyanga, Manicaland province, have been targeted for the ongoing nationwide bilharzia mass drug administration programme targeting children aged between five and 14.

[Erastus Mulwa, Standard] Some 5.6 million residents in five counties will now benefit from free Bilharzia drugs administration. The exercise that was launched in Machakos on Wednesday targets ...