Partners for Parasite Control

Newsletter — "Action Against Worms"

The PPC will bring out 3-4 issues of 'Action Against Worms' each year. Each issue will focus on a specific subject.

Issue 8: Deworming young children

This issue highlights some of the key points that programme managers should take into consideration when treating pre-school children. Six practical recommendations are given which range from assessing the need for treatment, adequate training for health staff and safe administration of the tablets.


Issue 7: Sustaining programmes and improving drug access

This issue highlights one of the remaining obstacles to sustained large scale worm control, i.e. access to sufficient quantities of non-donated anthelminthic drugs. It particularly describes the example of access to praziquantel in schistosomiasis control.


Issue 6: Which programmes can be integrated?

This issue examines the opportunities for deworming pre-school children through child health days, vitamin A supplementation programmes and measles and polio campaigns. The Democratic Republic of Congo's experience is described as well as the benefits and lessons learnt of adding deworming to large-scale programmes.


Issue 5: Save the Children — deworming through schools

This issue describes the experience of the Philippines, Malawi and Haiti, where Save the Children's School Health and Nutrition Programmes have successfully added deworming to their ongoing activities.


Issue 4: How to set up a deworming programme

This issue describes six steps on how to start a deworming programme including a list of the tools which are available for carrying out a survey, how to sample, and how to analyse your results.


Issue 3: The Uganda Story

Issue 3 was co-written by the Schistosomiasis Control Initiative and describes the launch of the control programme in Uganda.


Issue 2: The PPC

Issue 2 provides an overview of the Partners for Parasite Control, why it was launched, what its objectives are and the story of how some PPC partners have piggy-backed deworming onto their work.


Issue 1: Introduction

The first issue gives a broad summary of the situation with data on how many people globally are infected with worms, what the transmission cycles are, what the effect is on your health and the new control strategy.

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