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Health education, ecology, microscopy on the go in Nigeria with Hidden Worlds MicroSafari + A $2 Microscope!
Health education, ecology, microscopy on the go in Nigeria with Hidden Worlds MicroSafari + A $2 Microscope! We tried our unique approach to mapping out the life cycle of the Schistosome parasite i...
Creating SchistFilters for $0.02 Parasite Detection
Creating the SchistoFilters for $0.02 Parasite DetectionHi, my name is Phillip and my job was to create the Schistofilters and the cover-slips for the team this year. The cover-slips are really sim...
2 cases identified, and we are at 18% funded!
Foldscope microscopy was used with the Schistofilter this weekend, 2 hours from a paved road, to identify two cases and refer them for treatment. Thank you to Bolaji the amazing community health wo...
Snails Love Trash: Talkin' Plastic Pollution Blues
Do these pesky snails like plastic? This is a lab notebook update on the topic of snail-hosts of the schistosome parasite, which seem to be favoring trash-ridden hiding spots in small riverways in ...
Hidden Worlds MicroSafari! Health, ecology, microscopy on the go
Hidden Worlds MicroSafari! Health, ecology, microscopy on the goWe tried our unique approach to mapping out the life cycle of the Schistosome parasite in an interactive puzzle this August -- With t...
Praziquantel (Treatment, 300 doses) Moved to First Community
Today, I received word that the treatment for schistosomiasis, praziquantel, was moved in a batch of 300 doses to the first community enrolled in SCOPE. This is a community where no treatment avail...
Ethical Approval for SCOPE (Schistosomiasis Control from a One Health Perspective)
Ethical approval attached here, for project protocol
Cristina, Caroline head out to Nigeria soon.. Drones & Phones will be used to Fight Schisto!
Cristina, Caroline head out to Nigeria soon.. Drones & Phones will be used to Fight Schisto!The month of August will be action packed for the Health In Your Hands team. Consider supporting the ...
Pre-Print: Community-Led Diagnosis of Urogenital Schistosomiasis Using a Low-Cost, Point-of-Care Microscopy Toolkit in Rural Nigeria: A mixed-methods study
Read here: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.19.26348783v1https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.03.19.26348783AbstractBackground: Urogenital schistosomiasis is a major cause of preventable m...