Background
malaria, helminths
MALARIA, DISEASES, MALARIA, SCHISTOSOMIASIS
Since 2000, the malaria burden in sub-Saharan Africa has declined due to intensification and scaling up of control interventions [According to the National Malaria Control Programme (NMCP), malaria prevalence in Tanzania declined from an average of 18.1% in 2008 to 7.0% in 2017, marking an epidemiological transition from meso-endemic to hypo-endemic levels. However, this decline varies across and within regions and/or councils [The presence of a national school health programme (NSHP) that combines the schistosomiasis and soil transmitted helminths (STH) control packages under an integrated neglected tropical diseases (NTD) programme [