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© 2015 Public Library of Science. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited: Drake LJ, Singh S, Mishra CK, Sinha A, Kumar S, Bhushan R, et al. (2015) Bihar's Pioneering School-Based Deworming Programme: Lessons Learned in Deworming over 17 Million Indian School-Age Children in One Sustainable Campaign. PLoS Negl Trop Dis 9(11): e0004106. doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0004106

Abstract

By providing easy access to large numbers of children in a structured setting, the school-based deworming model has been successfully used to administer these antihelminthics in multiple settings [14-16]. [...]school-based deworming, in which the point of care for children is the school and the teachers are administers of the drugs, with critical oversight by health care staff, is recommended in order to cost-effectively and efficiently reach large numbers of children [14-17]. [...]we would like to thank Professors Sir Roy Anderson, Simon Brooker, and Donald Bundy for their support and guidance throughout the programme.

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Title
Bihar's Pioneering School-Based Deworming Programme: Lessons Learned in Deworming over 17 Million Indian School-Age Children in One Sustainable Campaign
Author
Drake, Lesley J; Singh, Sarman; Mishra, C K; Sinha, Amarjeet; Kumar, Sanjay; Bhushan, Rajesh; Hollingsworth, T Deirdre; Appleby, Laura J; Kumar, Rakesh; Sharma, Kriti; Kumar, Yogita; Raman, Sri; Chakrabarty, Stalin; Kihara, Jimmy H; Gunawardena, N K; Hollister, Grace; Kumar, Vandana; Ankur, Anish; Prasad, Babul; Ramachandran, Sushma; Fishbane, Alissa; Makkar, Prerna
Section
Historical Profiles and Perspectives
Publication year
2015
Publication date
Nov 2015
Publisher
Public Library of Science
ISSN
19352727
e-ISSN
19352735
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
1749630432
Copyright
© 2015 Public Library of Science. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited: Drake LJ, Singh S, Mishra CK, Sinha A, Kumar S, Bhushan R, et al. (2015) Bihar's Pioneering School-Based Deworming Programme: Lessons Learned in Deworming over 17 Million Indian School-Age Children in One Sustainable Campaign. PLoS Negl Trop Dis 9(11): e0004106. doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0004106