Projektnummer

0054675

Zusammenfassung

The goal of our ongoing activities is to test the feasibility of equipping communities living in informal urban settlements in Kisumu City, western Kenya, with strategies for schistosomiasis control, using the community-directed intervention strategy. An initial prevalence and distribution study to map schistosome and soil-transmitted helminth (STH) infections was carried out among 1,308 children aged 10-18 years in 34 primary schools in 8 informal urban settlements in Kisumu City. Overall, 34% of children were infected with one or more other helminth whereas 16.2 % of children were i...