Deworm the World compiles resources to provide information to interested individuals and organizations about the prevalence of parasitic worms, the need for and evidence to support school-based deworming, impacts of deworming, and good practices for implementing deworming programs. These resources are classified by document type, and can be searched either using the "Category" drop down menu below, or by keyword. Newsletters often contain useful epidemiological data and practice guides.
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Issue 4 describes the various steps for developing a school-based deworming program, including a list of the tools which are available for carrying out a survey and how to analyze the results. This issue also outlines the essential do’s and don’ts of school deworming.
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This first issue of WHO’s Action Against Worms newsletter provides a summary of the problem of parasitic worm infections, including its global prevalence and the various types of worms, as well as their symptoms and transmission. This issue also discusses the new control strategies for parasitic worm infections.
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This joint publication of the World Bank and WHO describes how parasitic worm infections affect the health and education of school-age children. In addition to providing a rationale for school-based deworming, it describes how to develop a school-based deworming program.
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School-based deworming is universally recognized as a safe, simple and cost-effective solution to the problem of parasitic worm infections. The World Health Organization (WHO) argues that school-based deworming is a strategy to help meet the Millennium Development Goals, including the achievement of universal primary education.
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This bulletin assesses the most effective ways of increasing children’s attendance at school, based on recent randomized evaluations. At a cost of $3.50 for every additional year of schooling induced, school-based deworming was identified as one of the most cost-effective ways to increase school participation of any approach rigorously tested.
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The annual report outlines the activities and achievements of DtW in 2009. Key successes include: assisting with the launch of government programs in Kenya and India; providing and coordinated strategic support benefiting 20 million children across 25 countries; and advocating for a global policy shift to expand school-based deworming to millions of new children.
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The WHO report contains epidemiological information on Schistosomiasis infections in 2010 including the projected the size of population requiring preventive chemotherapy and number of people treated in that year.
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This WHO report explains the methods and results of information obtained from chemotherapy administration targeting 75 - 100% of school-aged children at risk of morbidity in a number of states where NTDs are prevalent. This administration was carried out after a World Health Assembly Resolution in 2001 urged states to obtain a minimum target for 2010.
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A prevalence study of schistosomiasis and other intestinal helminthic infections was undertaken among school-aged children in Agaie LGA of Niger State, Nigeria last year. This was undertaken to assess the diseases in this region and provide base-line information which could be useful for integrating the area into the National Schistosomiasis Control Initiative of Nigeria Federal Ministry of Health. The study showed a gloomy picture of infections of schistosomiasis and other intestinal helminthiases in the region and recommendations follow on the urgent need for mass drug administration (MDA) for school-aged children.
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A cross-sectoral study of 1,237 preschool children (0-5 year olds), 1,142 school-aged children (6-15 year olds) and 960 women (>15 year olds) was conducted to understand the distribution of malnutrition, anemia, malaria and schistosomiasis and geohelminths in a north-western province of Angola. Within the report prevalence levels of malaria, schistosomiasis and geohelminths were found to be all endemic in this poorly described area. Evidence was also found that the studies infections are associated with observed levels of anemia and malnutrition, justifying the implementation of integrated interventions for the control of these diseases and morbidities.
