UK scientists inform roadmap to eliminate disease of poverty (UKRI News)
The World Health Organization is advocating a new One Health approach to tackle parasitic blood flukes in Africa following successful UKRI-funded research.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has adopted a change of direction in its roadmap to fight parasitic blood flukes in Africa. This gives fresh hopes that a major disease of poverty can be eliminated by 2030.
The new strategy has been informed by the findings of UKRI-funded multidisciplinary research which shows how the parasitic flukes causing schistosomiasis to transmit between animals and people in Africa.
The research was led by a team at the 51³Ô¹ÏÍø (RVC) in partnership with teams from Senegal and Niger in West Africa.
It was jointly funded by:
- Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office and Defence
- Science and Technology Laboratory under the programme.
