Schistosomiasis in Africa: Improving strategies for long-term and sustainable morbidity control

Affiliations

• ¹ RTI International, Washington DC, United States of America.
• ² United States Agency for International Development, Washington, DC, United States of America.
• ³ Schistosomiasis Control Initiative, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom.
• ⁴ Centers of Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America.
• ⁵ Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, Washington, United States of America.
• ⁶ London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom.
• ⁷ Global Schistosomiasis Alliance, London, United Kingdom.
• ⁸ Schistosomiasis Control Initiative, Kampala, Uganda.
• ⁹ Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America.
• ¹⁰ Expanded Special Program for Elimination of NTDs (ESPEN), World Health Organization Regional Office for Africa, Brazzaville, Republic of Congo.
• ¹¹ Global Health Institute, Merck KGaA (Germany), Coinsins, Switzerland.
• ¹² University of Yaoundé I, Yaoundé, Cameroon.
• ¹³ Centre for Schistosomiasis and Parasitology, Yaoundé, Cameroon.
• ¹⁴ Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland.
• ¹⁵ University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
• ¹⁶ Helen Keller International, Dakar, Senegal.