Evidence Action’s Deworm the World Initiative helps governments launch, scale, and sustain school-based deworming programs that free children from parasitic worm infections. Since 2015, we have provided technical assistance to…
An open, innovative approach to the challenge of connecting policymakers to the evidence they need for decision making: the case of deworming in low- and middle-income countries.
Chrispin Owaga spent nearly half of his childhood in Nyalenda, one of the biggest slums of Kisumu, the third largest city in Kenya. As our senior manager of Deworming in Kenya, he’s now fulfilling his lifelong aspiration to address the challenges he faced as a child.