The 4th SCI Advisory Board Meeting - 14th October 2005The SCI Advisory Board met on Friday October 14th 2005, to review the programmatic achievements of SCI during the last year through September 30th 2005, to consider the scientific results obtained in each country, and to approve the budgets for the coming financial year for the management unit, the surveillance and monitoring unit and the country implementation and monitoring programmes.
The Director of SCI presented the current progress report and a timetable of treatments and monitoring and evaluation scheduled for the coming two years to complete the SCI programme in six countries. The Advisory Board noted that SCI needs to identify sources of additional funding if the momentum for control of schistosomiasis and intestinal helminths is to be built upon, and other countries are to be able to implement their own programmes. By treating approximately 20 million people in 6 countries SCI is reaching only about 15% of those who need treatment in Africa, and so there remains much work to be done. |
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Board members included Professor Leszek Borysiewicz, Professor Roy Anderson, and
Mr. Andrew Murphy from Imperial College; Professor