With increased COVID vaccination rates and eased pandemic-era restrictions, deworming programs across the geographies in which we work are experiencing some sustained reprieve - schools have reopened and attendance rates…
In May 2021, we provided technical assistance to the Lagos State government to conduct its first state-wide school-based deworming campaign, targeting approximately 1.3 million school-age children. The program, led by…
This week, the Cross River State Ministry of Health’s Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTD) unit launched its inaugural statewide school-based deworming exercise that will treat against two neglected tropical diseases that are particularly common in children: schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted helminthiasis (STH). The school-based deworming exercise will cover 11 of the 18 local government areas in Cross River for the first time, and is targeting 600,000 at-risk school-aged children in primary and junior secondary public and private schools.