Epidemiology and Economics of Deworming

Bundy, Donald; Campbell, Suzy J.; Chami, Goylette F.; Croke, Kevin; Schultz, Linda; Turner, Hugo C.

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“…From 2020, Johnson & Johnson is donating its chewable paediatric formulation, which can be safely used by preschool-age children.Merck KGaApraziquantelschistosomiasisSince 2007: initially up to 20 million tablets to treat schistosomiasis in school-age children; commitment revised to 250 million tablet donation in 2012, until schistosomiasis is eliminated as a public health problemSource: Published in Bundy et al . [40,41], and adapted from Bradley et al . [42] with additional information from Johnson & Johnson [43].…”

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“…This neglected tropical disease (NTD) investment also represented the first World Bank health project [ 39 ]. This led to further donations: from GlaxoSmithKline in 1997 and again in 2020 for STH; from Johnson & Johnson in 2006; and from Merck KGaA in 2007 for schistosomiasis, as shown in table 1 [ 40 ]. The FRESH (Focusing Resources on Effective School Health) framework was the first education sector adoption of the MDA approach, launched at the World Education Forum in Dakar in 2000 [ 44 ], and was reinforced in 2001 by a World Health Organization (WHO) declaration in support of school-based MDA [ 45 ].…”

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“… Source: Published in Bundy et al . [ 40 , 41 ], and adapted from Bradley et al . [ 42 ] with additional information from Johnson & Johnson [ 43 ].…”

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“…school-age children; commitment revised to 250 million tablet donation in 2012, until schistosomiasis is eliminated as a public health problem Source: Published in Bundy et al[40,41], and adapted from Bradley et al[42] with additional information from Johnson & Johnson[43].royalsocietypublishing.org/journal/rstb Phil. Trans.…”

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A positive consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic: how the counterfactual experience of school closures is accelerating a multisectoral response to the treatment of neglected tropical diseases

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Global access to deworming treatment is one of the public health success stories of low-income countries in the twenty-first century. Parasitic worm infections are among the most ubiquitous chronic infections of humans, and early success with mass treatment programmes for these infections was the key catalyst for the neglected tropical disease (NTD) agenda. Since the launch of the ‘London Declaration’ in 2012, school-based deworming programmes have become the world's largest public health interventions. WHO estimates that by 2020, some 3.3 billion school-based drug treatments had been delivered. The success of this approach was brought to a dramatic halt in April 2020 when schools were closed worldwide in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. These closures immediately excluded 1.5 billion children not only from access to education but also from all school-based health services, including deworming. WHO Pulse surveys in 2021 identified NTD treatment as among the most negatively affected health interventions worldwide, second only to mental health interventions. In reaction, governments created a global Coalition with the twin aims of reopening schools and of rebuilding more resilient school-based health systems. Today, some 86 countries, comprising more than half the world's population, are delivering on this response, and school-based coverage of some key school-based programmes exceeds those from January 2020. This paper explores how science, and a combination of new policy and epidemiological perspectives that began in the 1980s, led to the exceptional growth in school-based NTD programmes after 2012, and are again driving new momentum in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. This article is part of the theme issue ‘Challenges and opportunities in the fight against neglected tropical diseases: a decade from the London Declaration on NTDs’.

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Section: Part 1: Why and How School-based Deworming Programmes Evolve...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Part 1: Why and How School-based Deworming Programmes Evolve...mentioning

confidence: 99%

“… Source: Published in Bundy et al . [ 40 , 41 ], and adapted from Bradley et al . [ 42 ] with additional information from Johnson & Johnson [ 43 ].…”

Section: Part 1: Why and How School-based Deworming Programmes Evolve...mentioning

confidence: 99%

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