About PNLBG - Experience and qualifications
Le Programme National de Lutte contre la Bilharziose et les Géohelminthes
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Involvement in CONTRAST
The Niger
group will be responsible for the collection of parasitological and
malacological data in Niger
especially for analysis in the WP3-8, 10
and 11.
Key Personnel 
Dr Amadou Garba is the
National Co-ordinator of the programme for Schistosomiasis and
Soil-transmitted
helminths of Niger.
He studied medicine at the University of Niamey (Niger), then public
health and
epidemiology at the Regional Public Health Institute at Cotonou (Benin)
and the
University of Bordeaux 2 (France). Earlier in his career he was a
researcher at CERMES in Niamey, a centre which collaborates with the
World Health Organisation on research
into schistosomiasis and its
prevention and cure. In 1993 he trained in ultrasound techniques, and
he has
carried out more than 15,000 ultrasound scans to evaluate morbidity due
to schistosomiasis in various regions of Niger, Benin
and Burkina Faso
where the disease is endemic.
Other personnel involved
Dr Ali Djibo, MD, Assistant Professor of Internal
Medicine and parasitology, at the University of Niamey - Parasitological
studies.
Dr Nouhou Barkire, PhD, Assistant Professor of
Biology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Niamey - malacological surveys.
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