Assessment of a Brazilian public policy intervention to address schistosomiasis in Pernambuco state: the SANAR program, 2011-2014

• Main Authors: Luiz Augusto Facchini (Author), Bruno Pereira Nunes (Author), Eronildo Felisberto (Author), José Alexandre Menezes da Silva (Author), Jarbas Barbosa da Silva Junior (Author), Elaine Tomasi (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2018-10-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Brazil is an endemic country for schistosomiasis in the Latin American and Caribbean countries. Pernambuco is a higher-endemic Brazilian state among the 19 states reporting the disease in the country; schistosomiasis affects 102 (55%) of its 185 municipalities. Our objective was...