Steps for training School Deworming Teams:

1. Health education
Teachers and health workers will learn to teach about the impact of worm infections on children’s health and education, how infections can be treated, and how infection can be prevented through effective sanitation and hygiene.

2. Community sensitization
Teachers and health workers will learn about how to share with parents and the general public comprehensive information about the aim of the program and its safety profile.

3. Drug requisition and safe storage
Teachers and health workers will be trained about how teachers should inform local health centers of the number of children in their school (to enable drug requisition calculations), about collection of drugs distributed to health centers from the national level, and about drugs’ safe storage once they are at school.

4. Administration of albendazole
Teachers and health workers will be trained in how teachers should enable children to take albendazole, and in side effects (such as occasional nausea or vomiting) and their management.

5. Administration of praziquantel
Teachers and health workers will be trained in how teachers should use a height pole to determine the number of tablets a child needs, how teachers should enable children to take praziquantel, and how to manage side effects.

6. Data collection and monitoring
Teachers will learn how to keep simple records of the number of children who have received drugs and about how the data collected should be returned to local authorities for collation and forwarding to the national level.