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The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, and the measures put in place to curtail it and protect communities, has had wide ranging implications for public health interventions and research. GSA partners shared insights on how the pandemic is impacting their work, what their most pressing concerns are, and their top priorities in this new and fast-changing setting.
The GSA working groups are re-positioning priority actions in light of the pandemic. Excitingly our Research working group has established a workstream (or task team) on snail molecular and genomic research, chaired by Nic Wheeler from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, to collaboratively address common challenges and barriers.
The GSA Research WG supported 4 proposals for the COR NTD 2020 meeting and is developing plans for a GSA meeting provisionally planned for the 15th of November, post COR NTD/pre ASTMH.
Webinar | Schistosomiasis treatment gaps hinder emilination efforts: a current perspective
Derick Okasunor discusses current treatment gaps in different age groups and how this is hindering the schistosomiasis goal of "elimination as a public health problem". Read the open access Opinion Piece here.
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Blog | What’s age got to do with it? Age gaps in schistosomiasis control.