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  • Merck Serono Donation to Eliminate Schistosomiasis in Africa
    Dec 19, 2011 | African Press Organization

    Merck Serono has announced that it will be doubling its annual donation of praziquantel tablets, the drug used to treat schistosomiasis, from 25 million to 50 million tablets. The donations will continue indefinitely until schistosomiasis has...

  • Indian state implements record-breaking school health campaign for 17 million children
    Dec 8, 2011 | The ONE Blog

    Worms are often a “silent problem,” rarely discussed even in places like the India state of Bihar where more than 50 percent of children suffer from the parasites. If untreated, however, severe worm infections can cause symptoms ranging from...

  • Finding the pulse of the poor
    Nov 26, 2011 | The Boston Globe

    MIT professors Esther Duflo, and Abhijit Banerjee believe that antipoverty policies must be built on evidence from careful, controlled tests that detail how the poor live, act, and react.

    By building the evidence base around initiatives...

  • Killing Two Development Problems with One Tablet
    Nov 22, 2011 | Global Health Policy

    In a great post on Global Health Policy Nandini Oomman, director of the HIV/AIDS Monitor at the...

  • De-worming schoolchildren: Bihar leads the way
    Nov 21, 2011 | The Tribune, India

    At a time when parasitic worms are threatening school education goals worldwide by preventing children from attending classes, Nitish Kumar-led Bihar has become the first state in the country to host the world’s largest de-worming project for...

  • Free from worms, free to learn
    Nov 11, 2011 | The Hindu

    The first State-wide school-based de-worming programme which concluded recently in Bihar provides a model that can be rapidly scaled up in other States and sustained over time to improve the education, health and productivity of school children,...

  • Worm infections costing India billions in lost income
    Nov 5, 2011 | The Hindu

    More than 290 million Indians, including many school-aged children, suffer from Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) costing the region billions in lost productivity each year. A new report from Dr Peter Hotez, the President of the Sabin Vaccine...

  • Get your deworming work recognized with the 2010 Global NGO Deworming Inventory
    Oct 12, 2011 | Global NGO Deworming Inventory

    NGOs involved with deworming are still able to participate in the 2010 Global NGO Deworming Inventory.

    By contributing to the Inventory you’ll help the global deworming community build stronger partnerships to more effectively treat...

  • Deworming makes history: From research to action in India
    Oct 10, 2011 | The Berkeley Blog

    In the late 1990’s, UC Berkley's Ted Miguel joined forces with Harvard's Michael Kremer to conduct a piece of ground-breaking research to evaluate the education impacts of school-based deworming campaigns in Western Kenya.

  • Worms could mess up your child’s performance
    Oct 8, 2011 | The Standard, Kenya

    Sick children are not as able to learn in school as their healthy classmates. For millions of children across the world this illness is caused by intestinal worms. These parasitic worms can cause cause anaemia, stunted growth, lethargy, impaired...

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