Assessment of a Brazilian public policy intervention to address schistosomiasis in Pernambuco state: The SANAR program, 2011-2014

• Autores: da Silva JAM, da Silva Junior JB, Facchini LA, Felisberto E, Nunes BP, Tomasi E
• Ano de Publicação: 2018
• Journal: BMC Public Health
• Link: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30359232

BACKGROUND: Brazil is an endemic country for schistosomiasis in the Latin American and Caribbean countries. Pernambuco is a higher-endemic Brazilian state among the 19 states reporting the disease in the country; schistosomiasis affects 102 (55%) of its 185 municipalities. Our objective was to evaluate the effectiveness of the treatment cycles of the SANAR Program (Plan […]
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