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 ...

Maloba is among champions spearheading the campaign against intestinal worms and bilharzia in Western Kenya counties. Christine Khavari, a mother of a two-year-old girl went through a similar ...