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Affordable Vision Correction |
School-based helminth control programmes:
Improve health and educational outcomes. for children.
Highly cost effective.
Are most effective when supported by. accompanying strategies, .
So to summarise: school based deworming programmes
can improve the health and educational outcomes of children,
are highly cost effective, costing as little as $0.2 per child for treatment of schistosomiais with praziquantel, and $0.02 for treatment of soil-transmiited helminths with albendazole.
BUT these programmes are most effective when supported by additional strategies, especially SSHE programmes, which are essential to help prevent re-infection.