PAR706: Current Topics on the Control of Schistosomiasis and Soil Transmitted Helminthiasis 6 credits (40-0-20)

Objectives

The course shall present to students the important components for reducing the burden of Schistosomiasis and soil transmitted helminthiasis morbidity and mortality

Contents

Schistosomiasis: Implementation of Human Schistosomiasis Control: Challenges and prospects; Schistosomiasis control initiative; low transmission areas ; integration and sustainability

Soil-Transmitted Helminthiasis: Population-Based Interventions to Control soil-Transmitted helminthiasis; Intervention Package; Group at Risk; treatment frequency; targets; Delivering the intervention; Transmission dynamics and the environment, Ecological correlates, predicting distributions, Urbanization, Global control strategies (targets, Delivering the Intervention, Impact on Morbidity, Cost of the intervention, New Technology for sustaining deworming, scaling up deworming for school-age Children), Control applications of GIS/RS, Global distribution, predicted number of infection