“You can do it!” Those were the words a group of graduate students I had gone hiking with somewhere near Loch Lomond had said to me. Why, you wonder? Well, I had joined them on a 90-minute hike aro…

The World Health Organization (WHO) congratulates Niger for having met the criteria for onchocerciasis elimination, making it the fifth country globally and the first country in Africa to be acknowled...

Direct morbidity assessments are rarely included in monitoring and evaluation of Schistosoma mansoni control programmes. Instead, the number of eggs-per-gram (EPG) of faeces is used as a proxy for mor...