A descriptive qualitative case study of the experiences, perceptions and attitudes of pregnant women on Unguja island, Zanzibar, towards antischistosomal treatment.

"Declaration of Competing Interest Authors have declared that no competing interests exist."

"Funding information This study received financial support from the University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc., which is funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (https://www.gatesfoundation.org/) for these Schistosomiasis Consortium for Operational Research and Evaluation (SCORE; https://score.uga.edu/) projects (prime award no. OPP50816, sub-award no. RR374-053/4893206). SK received financial support by sub-award no. RR374-053/4893196. The funders of the study had no role in the study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript."

"This study was conducted in July and August 2015 within the ZEST project. The ZEST study received ethical approval from the Zanzibar Medical Research Ethical Committee in Zanzibar, United Republic of Tanzania (ZAMREC, reference no. ZAMREC 0003/Sept/011) and is registered with the International Standard Randomized Controlled Trial Number register (ISRCTN48837681)."