Stakeholders meeting on access to pediatric praziquantel for preventive chemotherapy

The goals of the meeting are to : 1. sensitize stakeholders to the importance of schistosomiasis in preschool children; 2. present the phase II results of Oral Dispersible Tablet (ODT) praziquantel; 3. outline the development steps towards commercial ODT praziquantel; and to 4. discuss resource mobilization for procurement and deployment of the ODTs to treatment of young children for schistosomiasis.