TY - ECHAP
KW - Community participation
KW - schistosomiasis
AU - Ibn Tofail A
AU - Karmaoui A
AU - Ibn Tofail J
AU - Akchbab J
AB - <jats:p>In 2009, the Moroccan Ministry of Health in collaboration with the World Health Organization confirmed that the transmission of schistosomiasis had ceased in all previously endemic provinces of Morocco. This achievement couldn't have been achieved without the effective participation and engagement of local communities. In this chapter, studies of community participation strategies for schistosomiasis control in Akka oasis were reviewed. Southern Morocco was known to be a foci site for urinary schistosomiasis since 1937. Combined efforts between health officials and local community participation have achieved the elimination of this neglected tropical disease, where the last cases in these foci were recorded in the early 2000s. The results of this chapter can be used to increase awareness of the need for community participation in controlling neglected tropical diseases such as schistosomiasis. </jats:p>
BT - Advances in Environmental Engineering and Green Technologies
DO - 10.4018/978-1-7998-2197-7.ch006
LA - eng
N2 - <jats:p>In 2009, the Moroccan Ministry of Health in collaboration with the World Health Organization confirmed that the transmission of schistosomiasis had ceased in all previously endemic provinces of Morocco. This achievement couldn't have been achieved without the effective participation and engagement of local communities. In this chapter, studies of community participation strategies for schistosomiasis control in Akka oasis were reviewed. Southern Morocco was known to be a foci site for urinary schistosomiasis since 1937. Combined efforts between health officials and local community participation have achieved the elimination of this neglected tropical disease, where the last cases in these foci were recorded in the early 2000s. The results of this chapter can be used to increase awareness of the need for community participation in controlling neglected tropical diseases such as schistosomiasis. </jats:p>
PB - IGI Global
PY - 2020
SN - 9781799821977/2326-9162, 2326-9170
SP - 123
EP - 135
T2 - Advances in Environmental Engineering and Green Technologies
TI - The Role of Community Participation in Fighting Schistosomiasis
TT - Lessons From Akka Oases (Southern Morocco)
ER -