Female genital schistosomiasis causes pain, stigma, and poverty, yet remains misdiagnosed, misunderstood, and ignored.

In November 2024, Timina was finally diagnosed with Female Genital Schistosomiasis (FGS), a neglected tropical disease caused by parasitic worms (Schistosoma) that live in freshwater. The worms infect ...

Health facilities forced to tap Facility Improvement Fund to fight NTDs.Worms, jiggers, bilharzia and intestinal worms persist as counties face budget crisis.

Parasitic worms that infect humans are not interbreeding with those that infect cattle as previously thought. This is good ...

In 2013, nearly one million school-aged children in these endemic areas were treated for schistosomiasis in Kenya.

A group of researchers has developed a new formulation for the only drug available on the market to treat helminths, as worms such as schistosomes and tapeworms are known. According to the World ...

The worm, a type of blood fluke ... resulting in a disease called schistosomiasis. Human infections typically happen when travellers come into contact with the parasite when swimming in ...

Schistosomiasis is estimated to affect 240 ... There is a treatment, praziquantel, a drug that paralyses the worms, but access is critically limited in the countries hit hardest.

Schistosomiasis, a parasitic disease caused by the Schistosoma worm, affects millions in Sub-Saharan Africa. However, the gender-specific manifestation of this disease, female genital ...

New insights into the mechanisms that cause more severe cases of schistosomiasis - a disease caused by parasitic worms and second only to malaria in terms of potential harm - have been revealed by ...

also known as bilharzia, impacts an estimated 250 million people worldwide, including 50 million preschool-aged children. The disease, caused by parasitic worms, leads to severe health ...

Blood samples of patients infected with a parasitic worm that causes schistosomiasis contain hidden information that marks different stages of the disease. In our recently published research, our team ...