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NTDs mapping for effective programmes 2

Part 2 of 2
Published on September 30, 2024   26 min

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Greetings, my name is Prof. David Molyneux, and I'm giving a talk on behalf of my colleague Prof. B. E. B. Nwoke, who's a Professor of Public Health Parasitology & Entomology at the Imo State University, in Owerri, Nigeria. He's a member of the Mectizan Expert Committee, and chair of the Nigerian Onchocerciasis Elimination Committee. This talk is going to focus on three other groups of parasites, neglected tropical diseases, which have required mapping to understand their epidemiology.
0:41
The first slide emphasizes what we hope will be the outcome of you listening to this talk, and that's to understand the procedures, techniques, guidelines for mapping schistosomiasis, soil-transmitted helminths, and trachoma. You'll have a greater knowledge of the concept of mapping and integrated mapping for neglected tropical diseases, and the advantages that approach presents and appreciate how new technologies have improved the processes of NTD mapping.
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The first disease that we're going to talk about is schistosomes and schistosomiasis. Schistosomiasis is caused by six species of the parasite globally: Schistosoma haematobium and mansoni, dominant in tropical Africa, Schistosoma japonicum found in Asia, where in China it has been successfully controlled, Schistosoma mekongi in the lower part of the Mekong river basin, and two other rarer parasites in Africa, Schistosoma intercalatum, and Schistosoma guineensis, which are of less public health importance. Increasingly though in schistosomiasis in Africa, human parasites are hybridizing with animal parasites, particularly bovine schistosomes, and we're not yet quite sure of the epidemiological and clinical significance of these hybridizations.

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