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Worms are an Index of Poverty, Says CSO Health Expert
At a forum entitled, “Neglected Tropical Diseases: Control, Water and Sanitation Interventions” at ADB headquarters in Manila, Philippines last month, water and sanitation experts heard from Dr. Vicente Belizario, Jr. Deputy Director of the...
Evaluating The Best Ways to Give to the Poor
On the World Bank's Development Impact blog, Bruce Wydick discusses the result of a recent...
Deworming in Delhi: A Funder's Perspective
DtW's technical assistance to the recent school-based deworming program in Delhi is made possible by the generous support of the Michael and Susan Dell Foundation (MSDF). In two recent blog posts, MSDF Program Officer Urvashi Prasad describes...
Burundi: Country Launches National Plan to Combat Neglected Tropical Diseases
The Government of Burundi have announced its latest control efforts to eliminate Neglected Tropical Diseases including schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted helminths. School-based deworming and schistosomiasis treatments will be delivered as part...
It's not what you tell them it's the way that you tell them...
Cheryl Chapman writes on Caroline Fiennes, author of soon to be published It ain't what you give, it's the way that you give it who cites IPA as proof that donors care about evidence. An excerpt:
"For example, in comparing programmes that address why children in India do not go to school, [IPA's study] identified that a dollar can be 25 times more effective in one program than if invested in another. No donor I have spoken to hasn't understood that and been affected by that statistic.”
Mass school-based deworming launched in Delhi
Today, the Government of Delhi launched a mass school-based deworming exercise throughout the National Capital Territory (NCT) targeting 3.6 million school-age and preschool children. The “Worm Free Childhood” initiative is implemented under...
Report from the field: Delhi Deworming Launch Event
The following report was provided by Sushma Ramachandran, DtW’s Communications Advisor, upon attending the launch of the deworming program headed by Delhi Chief Minister Ms. Sheila Dikshit:
Mass de-worming drive in Delhi covered in The Hindu, BBC Asia
The Hindu, a leading newspaper in India, highlighted the efforts of Deworm the World (DtW) in partnership with the government of Delhi to "conduct a two-day mass de-worming programme at its 1,742 schools in the Capital beginning February 21." The deworming exercises were conducted on February 21st, with a "Mop-up Day" on February 27th.
Excerpt:
The Municipal Corporation of Delhi will conduct a two-day mass de-worming programme at its 1,742 schools in the Capital beginning February 21.
Under the “Chacha Nehru Sehat Yojana” programme, students will be given chewable tablets of Mebendozole (500 m.g.) on February 21 and those absent would be covered in the final round on February 27.
...“The multi-pronged programme comprises health education, personal hygiene and regular de-worming after every six months while addressing the problem of worm infestation.”
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The decision to go-ahead with de-worming in all MCD schools came following the result of studies revealing how de-worming has had a significant, positive impact on children's health, nutritional status growth, cognitive function and educational achievements.
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The deworming efforts were also covered by other major news organizations, including BBC Asia. Read more about the program and news coverage here.
Willing a way to clean water
The Harvard Gazette profiles the scaling up of IPA's Chlorine Dispensers for Safe Water. An excerpt:
A year and a half ago, a pilot program to give rural families affordable water purification had issued 40 dispensers that served 6,000 people in Kenyan villages. Today, more than 400,000 people in Kenya and other countries have access to clean water based on this method.
The approach, which uses an inexpensive chlorine solution and a plastic dispenser that was custom made to distribute doses at communal water sources, was developed by Michael Kremer, Gates Professor of Developing Societies in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ Economics Department and a faculty member at the Harvard Kennedy School, Professor of Economics Sendhil Mullainathan, and colleagues at the University of California at Berkeley, the National Bureau of Economic Research, Emory University, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Based on the initial study that concluded a year and a half ago, the Gates Foundation supported the nonprofit group Innovations for Poverty Action to scale up the approach, with Daniele Lantagne, a two-year Georgio Ruffolo Research Fellow in Harvard Kennedy School’s Sustainability Science Program, providing technical assistance. Several local governments in Kenya, along with the ministries of Water, Public Health and Sanitation, and Education, and the nonprofit One Acre Fund have all invested in the approach.
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