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China’s Input Ensured the Elimination of Schistosomiasis from Zanzibar’s Pemba Island

by Esther Ejiroghene Ajari

The WHO and the Tanzanian government have heralded a Chinese project to combat schistosomiasis in Pemba island, Zanzibar, which ran from 2016 until this year. Its successful implementation of good practices like broad-based cooperation and its flexible project design to accommodate local specificities might have received more attention in another year.

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