as a very devoted, hard working and conscientious person. Her two children have remained by her side through it all.

This sentinel site surveillance was funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Technical Support for the National NTD Control Program in Burkina Faso is made possible by the generous support of the American people through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). USAID awarded a grant to the Schistosomiasis Control Initiative (SCI) under a Cooperative Agreement with Research Triangle Institute (RTI) International. The contents are the responsibility of authors of this article and do not necessarily reflect the official views of any of the institutions mentioned above.

We are grateful to the national field team and school-children for their participation in these surveys and to Drs David AanensenNear Manila, Philippines (CNN) Edgar Matobato's days are spent -- for now, at least -- in a verdant, bucolic compound some way outside Manila.

Chickens, ubiquitous in the rural Philippines, scratch in the dirt and there is a sizable supply of food stacked up on the porch of one of the small structures that make up the compound.

It's a far cry from his nightmarish former life as a self-described death squad lieutenant in the southern city of Davao.

He won't be here forever, though. He, along with his wife and two children, has been moved at least 10 times -- although he says he's lost count -- in the past year.

The necessity for the constant moves originated with a change in his conscience, a slow transformation from around 2000 to