Schistosomiasis: assessing progress towards the 2020 and 2025 global goals

This study collated and analysed programmatic data from national schistosomiasis control programmes in nine countries. Researchers compared the progress these programmes had made against the World Health Organization (WHO) global targets for schistosomiasis, which estimate that national control (2020 aims) may be reached within 5-10 years and elimination as a public health problem (2025 aims) after 3-6 years. This study aimed to assess where we are at this point, how long programmes take to reach these targets and whether these targets are at all feasible, using evidence from empirical data.