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Intestinal
worms Intestinal worms are very common in developing countries, particularly
among children. They have some of the
largest burden of disease in those countries although they are cheap and
effective to treat. Here some links on the issue.
My Master’s thesis on "Scaling-Up and Mainstreaming: Increasing
Impact of International Child Supports (ICS) De-Worming Program in Recent articles on de-worming Great paper on spatial epidemiology and
mapping; also has a map of schistosomiasis
intensities in o
Brooker, S. (2006).
"Spatial Epidemiology of Human Schistosomiasis
in Policy-paper on deworming, with a focus on the Schistosomiasis Control Initiative o
Fenwick, A. (2006). "New Initiatives
against Africa's Details on the Ugandan national deworming program o
Kabatereine,
N. B., E. Tukahebwa, et al. (2006). "Progress Towards
Countrywide Control of Schistosomiasis and
Soil-Transmitted Helminthiasis in Information on de-worming and
Western Kenya Introduction to intestinal worm infections (soil-transmitted helminths and schistosomiasis) http://www.who.int/wormcontrol/statistics/useful_info/en/ Documentation, training and reporting materials from the WHO
Partnership for Parasite Control (http://www.who.int/wormcontrol/en/) o
PPC Newsletters http://www.who.int/wormcontrol/newsletter/en/). Check Issue 4: How to set up a
de-worming program. o
Detailed steps to set up a program, including parasitological surveys
(has tables with cut-off levels based on intensity) Montresor,
A., D. W. T. Crompton, et al. (2002). Helminth
Control in School-Age Children: A Guide for Managers of Control Programmes, WHO. (http://www.who.int/wormcontrol/documents/helminth_control/en/) o
Montresor, A., D. W. T.
Crompton, et al. (1998). Guidelines for the Evaluation of Soil-Transmitted helminthiasis and schistosomiasis
at the community level, WHO. o
Maps of schistosomiasis in several
countries: WHO (1987). Atlas of the Global Distribution of Schistosomiasis. (http://www.who.int/wormcontrol/documents/maps/country/en/) Other materials on worms o
All about schistosomiasis and helminth infections at the Schistosomiasis
Control Initiative (www.schisto.org). Check out their publications
list which includes some important papers on implementation and policy
approaches. SCI is involved in the
successful o
A flyer linking de-worming to the Millenium
Development Goals (http://whqlibdoc.who.int/hq/2005/WHO_CDS_CPE_PVC_2005.12.pdf) o
Relation of school-aged to community-level infections: Guyatt, H. L., S.Brooker, et
al. (1999). "Can prevalence of infection in school-aged children be used
as an index for assessing community prevalence?" Parasitology
118:257-268. o
On evaluation, and possible monitoring indicators: Gyorkos,
T. W. (2003). "Monitoring and evaluation of large scale helminth control programmes."
Acta Tropica 86: 275-282. Information on o
World Bank (2001). Small Area Poverty Map of Kenya, World Bank
Development Research Group. (http://www.worldbank.org/research/povertymaps/kenya/) o
Poverty Action Lab (http://www.povertyactionlab.org/) runs several evaluation studies
in o
International Child Support Africa (http://www.icsafrica.org) operates the de-worming program
in Busia district. o
New York Times article “World Bank Challenged: Are Poor Really
Helped?” (July 28, 2004) briefly mentions the de-worming project and has a
nice picture from the treatment. Last updated May 4, 2007 |