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CONTRAST Management Committee mid-term meeting
07.04.2010 - 07.04.2010
The CONTRAST MC will have i...
ICOPA 2010
15.08.2010 - 20.08.2010
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CONTRAST annual meeting
13.09.2010 - 17.09.2010
The CONTRAST annual meeting...
 

New CONTRAST publications

Some new CONTRAST papers published during spring 2009 have been entred in the bibliography section (can be found under Research - > papers and articles).

Last to be added are is a paper from Stensgaard et al.on the use of Virtual Globes in health research and Stothard et al from Zanzibar estimating re-infection in scool children on Unjuga Island, Zanzibar, after the 2003 mass treatment campaign.


 

 
CONTRASTsmalltext.pngis the multidisciplinary project on optimized schistosomiasis control and transmission surveillance in Sub-saharan Africa, funded by the European Union, EU.

What is schistosomiasis? Click here to read more.

On the website you can find specific schistosomiasis related news stories, both in terms of general news stories and but also specific items related to the CONTRAST project.

Please notice that some of the content published on the website is only available to the members of the CONTRAST research network.


 
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Schistosomiasis life cycle.
Poster from CSP , Cameroon

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The CONTRAST data
management system
is sponsored by
Fireflower Ltd.

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Typical African transmission site

 


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A preview of the CONTRAST map

See where CONTRAST is working!

Click the map link above, found under the media section. To the right is a preview of the map, using the Google Earth interface. Placemarks and photos have been added for most of the field sites found on the map.

Field work sites in Uganda and Senegal have been entered, as well as the location of all the partenrs in the CONTRAST project.