Toward the Elimination of Female Genital Schistosomiasis (FGS), By Alfred Kwesi Manyeh
FGS is threatening the reproductive and sexual health of women and girls.
As we celebrate the World Health Day with the focus on “Building a Fairer, and Healthier World”, there is the need for more concerted effort toward awareness creation, detection, treatment and prevention of FGS, together with other concomitant women’s health challenges or else FGS will remain a neglected gynaecological disease.
Schistosomiasis is a water-borne parasitic disease caused by infection with
Schistosoma blood flukes that utilise freshwater snails as intermediate hosts
[1].
Schistosomiasis, widely known as bilharzia, remains a public health problem in several parts of the world, particularly in Africa