[Measures for control of schistosomiasis adopted by the National Health Foundation]

The control measures used by the Ministério da Saúde/Fundação Nacional de Saúde for 1990/1991, started to have a new focus when significant advances were evidenced in the two last decades and after internal meetings with participation of the scientific community interested in accompanying the actions directed to the control of schistosomiasis in our country. Since then, the priority started to be the suppressing of the occurrence of advanced clinical forms, having as an objective, the detection and treatment of all carrier of Schistosoma mansoni. Beyond the control measures, factors that may interfere in the application of those measures were also studied, the diverse phases of field operations, the work methodology and results obtained in the first semester of 1991.