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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...

Treatment of Trichuris trichiura Infections Improves Growth, Spelling Scores and School Attendance in Some Children

This study examines school-based deworming in Jamaica to determine the impact of whipworm treatment on school performance. The results show an improvement in children's performance in three memory tests after...

Evidence for An Improvement in Cognitive Function Following Treatment of Schistosoma japonicum Infection in Chinese Primary School Children

This study investigates the effect on the cognitive function of children in China after receiving treatment for parasitic worm infections. The results from the study show that children who were treated for...

Effects of Antiparasitic Treatment on Dynamically and Statically Tested Cognitive Skills Over Time

This study investigates the impact of deworming children in rural Tanzania. In the study, children treated for heavy infections of schistosomes and hookworm, benefited more from a teaching session in which they were...

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DEWORMING SPOTLIGHT

17 million school-age children were treated for parasitic worms by the Government of Bihar, which successfully implemented a deworming program in all 38 districts of the state in 2011.

Targeting children in over 67,000 schools, this is one of the world’s largest school-based deworming programs. Find out more...

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