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SCI needs as little as 50 pence per person per year to treat children and at risk adults for the neglected tropical diseases schistosomiasis and soil tranmitted helminths in Africa.

Treatment for schistosomiasis (SCH) and soil transmitted helminths (STH - whipworm, hookworm, roundworm), prevents anaemia, impaired growth and development in children and the development of life-threatening conditions of bladder cancer, kidney malfunction or liver and spleen damage.

SCI assists Ministries of Health across sub-Saharan Africa to control and then eliminate schistosomiasis and STH from their population utilising the World Health Organization’s Drug Donation Programme for praziquantel and albendazole. 230 million people, one-third of the total population of Africa, need a regular annual treatment of praziquantel, and 400 million people need a regular annual treatment of albendazole, to eliminate these parasitic diseases from their bodies (map – Distribution of NTDs in Africa).

SCI needs as little as 50 pence per person per year, to facilitate delivery of treatments in Africa.

Treating NTDs is a ‘best buy’ in public health according to The World Health Organization (WHO).