Schistosomiasis Control Program – In the News

Aug. 17, 2012
Meeting of the International Task Force for Disease Eradication, April 2012 (PDF)
This article was published in the Aug. 17, 2012, edition of the World Health Organization's Weekly Epidemiological Record. It is reprinted with permission.
The 19th Meeting of the International Task Force for Disease Eradication (ITFDE) was convened at the Carter Center, Atlanta, Ga. (United States), on April 12, 2012, to discuss the potential eradicability of schistosomiasis.

July 22, 2007
Chicago Tribune Feature: Learning from Young
After reading a Tribune story about a disease called schistosomiasis, the children at Fairview Elementary School launched a campaign that eventually raised $600 -- enough to buy medication for 3,000 children in Nigeria.

June 28, 2007

The Carter Center Celebrates 1 Million Treatments for Schistosomiasis in Nigeria
In May, The Carter Center and the Nigeria Ministry of Health celebrated the delivery of 1 million praziquantel treatments for schistosomiasis in Nigeria's Delta, Nasarawa, and Plateau states since the schistosomiasis program's inception in 1999.

March 14, 2007
Chicago Tribune Feature: River Parasite Eats at Children
Flowing through the shantytowns and yam fields of this dust-choked region, the River Uke glimmers like a mirage, tiny white diamonds of sunlight dancing on its surface. As the temperature rises to 100 degrees, wiry boys run to the river and leap into its waters.

March 13, 2007
National Public Radio: A Doctor's Lifelong Commitment to Fight Diseases (PDF)
Dr. Frank Richards specializes in the infectious diseases that are rampant in developing countries, especially diseases that target children.

March 12, 2007
National Public Radio: Making the Case for Schistosomiasis (PDF) 
Schistosomiasis affects millions of children in developing countries. A microscopic parasite slowly eats away at their intestines, their colon, their liver and their urinary tract, causing bleeding and anemia. Yet the debilitating disease does not kill, and it is not an international health priority.

Nov. 2, 2004
New York Times Feature:  At The Old Swimming Hole, A Vicious Cycle Thrives
By Donald G. McNeil, Jr. The pond was about the size of a school swimming pool, except it was surrounded by dry mud pocked with hundreds of hoofprints. A herd of goats was at one edge, drinking and defecating in the same spot. The sun was going down behind a thorn tree, backlighting 50 naked boys splashing one another in the warm dusk.