Schistosomiasis & NTD Control

SCI Update on Funds Funnelled Through the GNNTDC in 2007 for Tanzania

The funds are being used for the first ever round of treatment of school aged children for schistosomiasis and soil transmitted helminths in 6 regions in Tanzania; Rukwa, Morogoro, Singida, Manyara, Kilimanjaro and Arusha. On the 1st -3rd July 2008 a training session for Regional and District school health coordinators took place in Morogoro Town. Within each region, training of teachers and health workers has been taking place during July 2008 at the district level in every district involved in the campaign.

Successful Mass Drug Administration across Tanzania

The last quarter of 2007 brought to a successful close the second treatment campaign of the National Schistosomiasis and Soil-transmitted helminth Control Programme (NSSCP) which targeted school-aged children and, for the first time, communities residing in the highest prevalence districts in Tanzania.

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News

• Third Schistosomiasis treatment on Pemba Island, Zanizbar
• Five million school children receive treatment on mainland Tanzania Nov-Dec 2005
• Launch of programme in Tanzania – July 2nd 2005
• Urinary schistosomiasis questionnaires on Zanzibar (Unguja)
• Development of a proposal for submission to the European Union, Zanzibar (Unguja) May 2nd – 6th 2005
• Ultrasonography training on Zanzibar (Unguja), 9th – 13th, May 2005
• Ultrasound Training Workshop in Mwanza, Tanzania February 8th-18th 2005
• Opening of New Helminth Control Laboratory, Unguja, Zanzibar
• National Deworming Training Started in Mainland Tanzania
• Mass Drug Distribution on Pemba Island, Zanzibar 
• SCI staff visit to Zanzibar.

SCI Coordinator Profiles

• Dr Ursuline Nyandindi, School Health Coordinator, Ministry of Health, Dar es Salaam, SCI Coordinator, Tanzania mainland
• Mr Hamad Juma Haji, SCI Coordinator, Zanzibar.

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