Lester Chitsulo

TL;DR: There is need for increased support for schistosomiasis control in the most severely affected countries, which are among the least developed whose health systems face difficulties to provide basic care at the primary health level.

TL;DR: A dual strategy for the control of schistosomiasis is developed: a strategy for morbidity control adapted to the public health context in high burden areas, and a strategy to consolidate control in areas where a low endemic level has been reached and elimination may be feasible.

TL;DR: Because of the geographic overlap of these afflictions and their impact on children and adolescents the World Health Organization; the World Bank; and other United Nations agencies and bilaterals; and civil society are working to integrate STH and schistosome control through a program of periodic school-based targeted anthelmintic drug treatments.

TL;DR: The HIV infection diminishes a pregnant woman's capacity to control P. falciparum parasitemia and placental and newborn infection, the major determinants of the impact of P. Falconerum on fetal growth and infant survival.

TL;DR: Among women in their first or second pregnancy, two treatment doses of SP were highly effective in decreasing the proportion of women with placental malaria infection at delivery.