Fighting schistosomiasis hand-in-hand
Channel: Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany
Date: 24/04/2018

Little known but still highly dangerous is schistosomiasis, a tropical parasitic infection that claims the lives of more than 280,000 people every year affecting over 200 million mainly children. We are working to completely eliminate this disease and, for the last ten years, have been donating praziquantel tablets to the World Health Organization (WHO) – up to 250 million tablets every year. Johannes Waltz, head of our  Praziquantel Donation Program works closely with Wendy Harrison, Executive Director the Schistosomiasis Control Initiative (SCI) to reach this goal.

Learn more in our new CR report: http://reports.emdgroup.com/2017/cr-report/magazine/health.html