Taenia solium - use of existing diagnostic tools in public health programmes: report of a virtual meeting of experts, 17 May 2022 - World Health Organization

Overview

The World Health Organization (WHO) convened a virtual meeting of experts on 17 May 2022 to review existing diagnostic tools for Taenia solium, which can be used to provide evidence to support the decision to implement public health programmes to control diseases caused by T. solium. The participants are listed in the Annex. All invited experts and observers completed the WHO conflict of interest and confidentiality forms. No conflicts were identified. The outcome of this review will inform the development of a T. solium monitoring and evaluation framework.

The specific meeting objectives were:

  1. To evaluate the key characteristics (sensitivity, specificity, commercial availability and affordability) of the existing diagnostic tools for T. solium in both humans and pigs that could be used to determine whether infection prevalence exceeds a defined threshold in population-based surveys;
  2. To describe the usefulness of the tools for mapping and monitoring, with consideration for survey setting, age group and sample size; and
  3. To identify immediate priorities for T. solium test development for public health programmes.

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