Impact of school health programme on urinary schistosomiasis control in schoolchildren in Kilosa, Tanzania

1996).Thus interventions aimed at school-aged childrenfocusing on delivery through schools are stronglyencouraged (WHO, 1993). School-basedprogrammes provide an infrastructure for deliveringtreatment against geohelminths and schistosomiasis(PCD, 1999). Such programmes have been shown toimprove health and well-being of schoolchildren inTanzania (Guyatt