ArticleRevista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical2024
Challenges to Schistosomiasis Control Program in Brazil: setbacks in the control program and critical analysis of the disease notification.
Article in Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.
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- Evaluating periportal fibrosis in schistosomiasis mansoni using the ELF [Enhanced Liver Fibrosis] score: A pilot study.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2026Article
- Epidemiological and Clinical-Laboratorial Profile of Schistosomiasis in an Endemic Urban Area in Pernambuco, Brazil.Acta parasitologica · 2026Article
- Co-endemicity of schistosomiasis and tegumentary leishmaniasis: Spatial co-clustering in endemic areas.Tropical medicine & international health : TM & IH · 2025Article
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Abstract
backgroundIn 1970, Brazil implemented the Schistosomiasis Control Program (PCE, Portuguese acronym for Programa de Controle da Esquistossomose) was implemented in Brazil, where, through successive treatment interventions, the epidemiology and transmission of schistosomiasis have changed significantly over time. This study aimed to evaluate the PCE's effectiveness by critically analyzing the disease notification system.
methodsAn ecological study was conducted using data on reported schistosomiasis cases in Brazil between 2007 and 2020.
resultsThe highest number of municipalities actively participating in the PCE was 750, recorded in 2007. Conversely, participation reached its lowest point in 2020, with only 259 municipalities involved. Over the past decade, there has been a drastic decline in the number of municipalities with active schistosomiasis control programs. During the same period, there was an observed increase in the number of deaths caused by schistosomiasis, while the number of reported cases decreased. This suggests an inverse correlation.
conclusionsThe present data suggest that schistosomiasis cases are not correctly diagnosed or reported, reflecting a twisted image of the magnitude of this public health problem in Brazil.
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