600 million school-age children are at risk of infection with parasitic worms, which threaten their health, education and development…

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WHO Weekly Epidemiological Record, 22nd February 2013

This WHO report includes epidemiological data on the number of people treated for schistosomiasis in 2011.

WHO Weekly Epidemiological Record, 8th June 2012

This WHO report includes epidemiological data on the number of children treated for soil-transmitted helminthiases in 2010.

WHO Weekly Epidemiological Record, 11th January 2013

This WHO report contains explains the background, the rationale and the process of monitoring and evaluating preventive chemotherapy programs. It also includes the updated estimated number of people...

Controlling Bilharzia in Schools

This publication describes Save the Children’s experience with school-based deworming in Malawi. It highlights the challenges, successes and lessons learned from conducting deworming treatment through a comprehensive...

Exploiting Externalities to Estimate the Long-term Benefits of Early Childhood Deworming

This working paper investigates the long-term effects of a large-scale deworming intervention aimed at primary school pupils in western Kenya. The results show improvements in cognitive performance equivalent to half...

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DEWORMING SPOTLIGHT

17 million school-age children were treated for parasitic worms by the Government of Bihar in partnership with Deworm the World in 2011. 

Targeting children in over 67,000 schools across 38 districts, this is the world’s largest school-based deworming program.  Find out more...

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