A Tale of a Man, a Worm and a Snail
The Schistosomiasis Control Initiative
$126.60
- Paperback
312 pages
- Release Date
14 December 2021
Summary
Schistosomiasis is Africa’s second most common parasitic disease. Less than 20 years ago, over 200 million were infected. In many high-risk areas the Schistosomiasis Control Initiative (SCI) has been helping to tackle the disease by offering treatments to millions of children. This book tells the story of a man, Alan Fenwick, who founded the SCI to control the worms and snails and so improve the lives of many burdened with the disease as well as reducing the numbers infected.
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781786392558 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1786392550 |
| Author: | Alan Fenwick, Dr Wendie Norris, Becky McCall |
| Publisher: | CABI Publishing |
| Imprint: | CABI Publishing |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 312 |
| Release Date: | 14 December 2021 |
| Weight: | 772g |
| Dimensions: | 15mm x 172mm x 244mm |
Alan Fenwick
Alan Fenwick has been at Imperial College since June 2002 teaching Tropical Parasitology to medical students, on Bio Medical Science courses, Masters courses, and to Intercollated B.Sc. courses both at Imperial and in other UK Universities. A specialist in the research and control of Schistosomiasis, Professor Fenwick has been recognised for his achievements not only by the Queen with an OBE, but also in other countries notably Niger and Burkina Faso. He has lived and worked in Tanzania, Sudan and Egypt, prior to returning to UK and to Imperial College. He has received two life time medal awards from both the UK Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (RSTMH) and the US American Society for Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH). The programme that Professor Fenwick established at Imperial in 2002 has been recognised as a top medical programme by the award of the “Queens Anniversary Prize” in 2008. The reason for this recognition is that he has assisted 16 countries deliver over 130 million treatments with the medicine praziquantel to under privileged populations, especially to children thus preventing the development of serious illness in later life. All this has been achieved at an average cost of just 50 pence per child per year.
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