GSA Strategy 2022-2025

This is the Global Schistosomiasis Alliance 4-year Strategic Plan, to support the WHO mid-term 2025 targets and accelerate progress to the 2030 goals. Our strategic plan defines our 5 priority objectives and how the alliance will work to achieve schistosomiasis elimination as a public health problem.

• Resources, capabilities & knowledge development. Promote, support and strengthen schistosomiasis technical and operational capabilities.
• Monitoring and Evaluation. Facilitate and strengthen ways to measure progress and evaluate interventions. Enable learn & adapt approaches to current and future challenges. Meet verification/validation requirements for schistosomiasis elimination as a public health problem and interruption of transmission.
• Integrated solutions to schistosomiasis elimination. Enhance practices and improve the quality of services, promoting targeted, context & evidence driven interventions, including preventive chemotherapy, snail control and environmental management, WASH, behaviour change communication and health education and cross-sector collaborative interventions.
• Diagnostics. Promote development and adoption of diagnostics to support M&E for MDA, test & treat, surveillance and to facilitate the integration of SCH into all levels of the health system.
• Innovation, integration & cross-cutting action. Promote basic, clinical & operational research, to engage with innovations and novel tools from different sectors. Encourage collaborative research to facilitate crosscutting and cross-sector approaches for sustainable elimination of schistosomiasis.