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A Package of Health Education Materials: Effectiveness for Schistosomiasis Control in Zanzibar

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Abstract

This chapter starts by the evaluation of community’s and schoolchildren’s knowledge, attitude, practices (KAPs) on urogenital schistosomiasis caused by Schistosoma haematobium in Pemba, Zanzibar. After the baseline survey, applications of health education were also introduced. At the end, there is a study of the effectives of schistosomiasis health education sessions in primary and secondary schools.

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Abbreviations

KAPs:

Knowledge, Attitude and Practices

NTD:

Neglected tropical disease

YLDs:

Years lived with disability

WHO:

World Health Organization

HIV:

Human immunodeficiency virus

AIDS:

Acquired immune deficiency syndrome

CASE:

China Aid Schistosomiasis Elimination

PZQ:

Praziquantel

MoH:

Ministry of Health

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Ethics Approval and Consent to Participate

The study was carried out according to the guidelines laid down in the Declaration of Helsinki and all procedures involving human subjects were approved by the MoH of Zanzibar (reference number: ZAMREC/002/MAY/014). Before the commencement of the study, we sought approval from local authorities, community leaders, school headmasters and teachers. We sought individual oral consent from community participants directly in face interview. The range of student’s age was 6–22. For all students whose age was under 18, their oral consent was obtained from their parents or legal guardians and teachers prior to the interview, and for those whose age was above 18, the oral consents were obtained from them directly. The procedure for verbal consent was approved by the ethical committees, the reason was the high degree of illiteracy in the rural area that participants there were not familiar with dealing with forms. Verbal consents were documented and captured on the digital audio recorder in the researcher’s notes. Participation was entirely voluntary, and no names were recorded. We took care to phrase the questions appropriately and respectfully.

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  1. Global Health Center, Jiangsu Institute of Parasitic Diseases, Wuxi, Jiangsu, China

    Jian He

  2. Jintan Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Changzhou, Jiangsu, China

    Da-Cheng Xu

  3. Jiangnan University, Wuxi, Jiangsu, China

    Racheal Nassiwa

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He, J., Xu, DC., Nassiwa, R. (2021). A Package of Health Education Materials: Effectiveness for Schistosomiasis Control in Zanzibar. In: Yang, K., Mehlhorn, H. (eds) Sino-African Cooperation for Schistosomiasis Control in Zanzibar. Parasitology Research Monographs, vol 15. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-72165-7_11

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