Partners for Parasite Control

What you can expect from the PPC?


How can the PPC help you and how can you contribute to the PPC? In the table below are some of the broad areas where you can contribute to the PPC's work, to country control programmes and what you can expect to receive from the PPC.

What can each partner give to the partnership? What can each partner expect to receive from the partnership?
Endemic countries need to work to create:
  • political commitment in support of national worm control programmes
  • strategic plans for funding so that programmes are stable and long-lasting
  • regular and effective coverage in endemic areas with sound reporting systems
  • shared responsibilities and working partnerships to increase the coverage.
Endemic countries, NGOs, scientific and academic institutions and United Nations agencies will receive:
  • technical support and guidance to establish, implement and maintain sound worm control programmes
  • training support at different levels - from community health workers and teachers to government policy-makers
  • training materials and tools.
  • regular information and updates
  • assistance, if necessary, to purchase drugs at low cost
  • support in fundraising for worm control programmes
  • invitations to share and discuss their work at PPC meetings and advocacy for any deworming work which they are carrying out which can be written up in the PPC documents.
NGOs can work to:
  • use their extensive outreach and networks to reach high risk groups
  • integrate deworming into their regular work
  • make deworming a regular and standard part of any health packages offered under their responsibility (e.g. Integrated Management of Childhood Ilness).
Scientific and academic institutions can:
  • share with the PPC their expertise in training and research
  • create practical responses in response to programme needs
  • assist in strengthening the research capabilities of endemic countries.
UN Agencies should:
  • add deworming to their large-scale programmes, for example vitamin A supplementation campaigns, and school and refugee feeding programmes
  • can use their position to leverage funding and international support to make deworming a mainstream activity
  • encourage the inclusion of deworming in the work of all their partners.
Bilaterals, Foundations and Other Donors need to:
  • invest funding towards diseases like these which cause as much suffering as some of the bigger killers - a few extra cents can make all the difference in worm control!
  • invest funding in countries with a long-term commitment in the understanding that this is the only way programmes will truly succeed.
Bilaterals, foundations and other donors will receive:
  • relevant and timely information on which to base their decisions, for example, country profiles that summarize the situation in each endemic country
  • convincing evidence that investing in worm control is one of the simplest and most cost-effective programmes a donor can support with satisfying returns
  • the technical support mentioned above to ensure that their investments are sound and implemented well.

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