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Leveraging Our Existing Government Partnership in India to Tackle Anemia

Leveraging Our Existing Government Partnership in India to Tackle Anemia

For several years, we’ve partnered with the Government of India to deliver mass school-based deworming as part of our Deworm the World Initiative. The ongoing success of this partnership has allowed us to explore opportunities to extend our impact in India. Ultimately, we settled on one promising area for further exploration through our Beta incubator: India’s national Weekly Iron and Folic Acid Supplementation (WIFS) program, which is designed to address the pressing challenge of anemia among school-age children.

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We Are All In This Together! Community Mobilization To Promote Deworming. A Photo Blog.
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We Are All In This Together! Community Mobilization To Promote Deworming. A Photo Blog.

Photo impressions from the preparation for the last National Deworming Day round in India. Community mobilization and promotion of the Deworming Day is important to increase coverage and get community and political buy-in for the largest, single-day community health program in the world.  

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Reaching the Poorest Children: Engaging Private School in India’s National Deworming Day
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Reaching the Poorest Children: Engaging Private School in India’s National Deworming Day

The Government of India held National Deworming Day 2016 on February 10, deworming 179 million children in 1.8 million preschools and schools. Evidence Action’s Deworm the World Initiative is the technical assistance provider to the Government of India, and is also working closely with seven state governments to implement National Deworming Day. 

To increase the number of children dewormed this year, we wanted to bring private schools into the fold of this government-led program that especially target poorer children. And we did: for the first time, 170,000 private schools dewormed their pupils across the country.

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