The impact and cost of a new rapid diagnostic test for school-based prevalence mapping and monitoring and evaluation surveys of schistosomiasis: A modelling study

Joshua M. Chevalier; Kyra H. Grantz; Sarah Girdwood; Stella Kepha; Thierry Ramos; Brooke E. Nichols; Shaukat Khan; Sarah Hingel

doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0013071

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The impact and cost of a new rapid diagnostic test for school-based prevalence mapping and monitoring and evaluation surveys of schistosomiasis: A modelling study

Joshua M. Chevalier,

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Global Health, Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development, Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8873-6669

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Kyra H. Grantz,

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Global Health, Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development, Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands, FIND, Geneva, Switzerland
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Sarah Girdwood,

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation FIND, Geneva, Switzerland
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Stella Kepha,

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Eastern and Southern Africa Centre of International Parasite Control, Kenya Medical Research Institute, Kisumu, Kenya
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Thierry Ramos,

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation FIND, Geneva, Switzerland
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Brooke E. Nichols,

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Global Health, Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development, Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands, Department of Global Health, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Shaukat Khan ,

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: sakhan@gmail.com (SK); sarah.hingel@finddx.org (SH)

Affiliation FIND, Geneva, Switzerland

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7247-4190

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Sarah Hingel

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: sakhan@gmail.com (SK); sarah.hingel@finddx.org (SH)

Affiliation FIND, Geneva, Switzerland
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The impact and cost of a new rapid diagnostic test for school-based prevalence mapping and monitoring and evaluation surveys of schistosomiasis: A modelling study

Joshua M. Chevalier,
Kyra H. Grantz,
Sarah Girdwood,
Stella Kepha,
Thierry Ramos,
Brooke E. Nichols,
Shaukat Khan,
Sarah Hingel

Published: May 12, 2025
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0013071

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