Dr Narcis
Kabatereine, National
Co-ordinator of Schistosomiasis Control
 Dr Narcis Kabateriene is an entomologist by
training, one of four senior entomologists who respectively run the
onchocerciasis, trypanosomiasis, lymphatic filariasis and schistosomiasis (bilharzia)
control programmes in the Vector Control Division of the Ministry of Health
in Uganda. Narcis first degree was from the Makerere University in Kampala,
and his second degree was from Nairobi University in Kenya. After several
years in his position in the VCD he was awarded a scholarship to study for a
Ph.D in epidemiology of schistosomiasis in Copenhagen University. He has
been responsible for bilharzia control in Uganda for over ten years, but it
is only now that he has funds for control, because previously the problem of
bilharzia was not allocated money for drugs.
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