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Shuford, Kathryn Were, Florence Awino, Norbert Samuels, Aaron Ouma, Peter Kariuki, Simon Desai, Meghna and Allen, Denise Roth 2016. Community perceptions of mass screening and treatment for malaria in Siaya County, western Kenya. Malaria Journal, Vol. 15, Issue. 1,
Muhumuza, Simon Olsen, Annette Katahoire, Anne and Nuwaha, Fred 2015. Reduced uptake of mass treatment for schistosomiasis control in absence of food: beyond a randomized trial. BMC Infectious Diseases, Vol. 15, Issue. 1,
Price, A. Verma, A. and Welfare, W. 2015. Are health education interventions effective for the control and prevention of urogenital schistosomiasis in sub-Saharan Africa? A systematic review. Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Vol. 109, Issue. 4, p. 239.
Parker, Melissa and Allen, Tim 2014. De-Politicizing Parasites: Reflections on Attempts to Control the Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases. Medical Anthropology, Vol. 33, Issue. 3, p. 223.
Reich, Reuben Mulvaney, Patrick and Robinson-Bostom, Leslie 2014. A worldwide yearly survey of new data in adverse drug reactions.
Garba, Amadou Lamine, Mariama S. Barkiré, Nouhou Djibo, Ali Sofo, Boubacar Gouvras, Anouk N. Labbo, Rabiou Sebangou, Hannatou Webster, Joanne P. Fenwick, Alan and Utzinger, Jürg 2013. Efficacy and safety of two closely spaced doses of praziquantel against Schistosoma haematobium and S. mansoni and re-infection patterns in school-aged children in Niger. Acta Tropica, Vol. 128, Issue. 2, p. 334.
Muhumuza, Simon Katahoire, Anne Nuwaha, Fred and Olsen, Annette 2013. Increasing teacher motivation and supervision is an important but not sufficient strategy for improving praziquantel uptake in Schistosoma mansonicontrol programs: serial cross sectional surveys in Uganda. BMC Infectious Diseases, Vol. 13, Issue. 1,
Rollinson, David Knopp, Stefanie Levitz, Sarah Stothard, J. Russell Tchuem Tchuenté, Louis-Albert Garba, Amadou Mohammed, Khalfan A. Schur, Nadine Person, Bobbie Colley, Daniel G. and Utzinger, Jürg 2013. Time to set the agenda for schistosomiasis elimination. Acta Tropica, Vol. 128, Issue. 2, p. 423.
Stothard, J Russell Sousa-Figueiredo, José C and Navaratnam, Annalan MD 2013. Advocacy, policies and practicalities of preventive chemotherapy campaigns for African children with schistosomiasis. Expert Review of Anti-infective Therapy, Vol. 11, Issue. 7, p. 733.
Allen, Tim and Parker, Melissa 2012. Will increased funding for neglected tropical diseases really make poverty history?. The Lancet, Vol. 379, Issue. 9821, p. 1097.
Allen, Tim and Storm, Laura 2012. Quests for therapy in northern Uganda: healing at Laropi revisited. Journal of Eastern African Studies, Vol. 6, Issue. 1, p. 22.
Geary, Timothy G. 2012. Are new anthelmintics needed to eliminate human helminthiases?. Current Opinion in Infectious Diseases, Vol. 25, Issue. 6, p. 709.
Parker, Melissa Allen, Tim Pearson, Georgina Peach, Nichola Flynn, Rachel and Rees, Nicholas 2012. Border parasites: schistosomiasis control among Uganda's fisherfolk. Journal of Eastern African Studies, Vol. 6, Issue. 1, p. 98.
Sousa-Figueiredo, José C. Betson, Martha and Stothard, J. Russell 2012. Treatment of schistosomiasis in African infants and preschool-aged children: downward extension and biometric optimization of the current praziquantel dose pole. International Health, Vol. 4, Issue. 2, p. 95.
Magnussen, Pascal Vennervald, Birgitte Jyding and Aagaard-Hansen, Jens 2011. Water and Sanitation-Related Diseases and the Environment.
Marchal, Bruno Van Dormael, Monique Pirard, Marjan Cavalli, Anna Kegels, Guy and Polman, Katja 2011. Neglected tropical disease (NTD) control in health systems: The interface between programmes and general health services. Acta Tropica, Vol. 120, p. S177.
Parker, Melissa and Allen, Tim 2011. Does mass drug administration for the integrated treatment of neglected tropical diseases really work? Assessing evidence for the control of schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted helminths in Uganda. Health Research Policy and Systems, Vol. 9, Issue. 1,
Utzinger, Jürg N’Goran, Eliézer K. Caffrey, Conor R. and Keiser, Jennifer 2011. From innovation to application: Social–ecological context, diagnostics, drugs and integrated control of schistosomiasis. Acta Tropica, Vol. 120, p. S121.
2011. Water and Sanitation-Related Diseases and the Environment.
Allotey, Pascale Reidpath, Daniel D and Pokhrel, Subhash 2010. Social sciences research in neglected tropical diseases 1: the ongoing neglect in the neglected tropical diseases. Health Research Policy and Systems, Vol. 8, Issue. 1,
A strong case has recently been made by academics and policymakers to develop national programmes for the integrated control of Africa’s ‘neglected tropical diseases’. Uganda was the first country to develop a programme for the integrated control of two of these diseases: schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted helminths. This paper discusses social responses to the programme in Panyimur, north-west Uganda. It shows that adults are increasingly rejecting free treatment. Resistance is attributed to a subjective fear of side-effects; divergence between biomedical and local understandings of schistosomiasis/bilharzia; as well as inappropriate and inadequate health education. In addition, the current procedures for distributing drugs at a district level are problematic. Additional research was carried out in neighbouring areas to explore the generalizability of findings. Comparable problems have arisen. It is concluded that the national programme will not fulfil its stated objectives of establishing a local demand for mass treatment unless it can establish more effective delivery strategies and promote behavioural change in socially appropriate ways. To do so will require new approaches to social, economic and political aspects of distribution. There are reasons why populations infected with the ‘neglected tropical diseases’ are themselves neglected. Those reasons cannot just be wished away.
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