Bihar’s Pioneering School-Based Deworming Programme: Lessons Learned in Deworming over 17 Million Indian School-Age Children in One Sustainable Campaign
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1 Partnership for Child Development, Imperial College London, School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, 2 Deworm theWorld, Washington, D.C., United States of America, 3 London Centre for Neglected Tropical Disease Research, Imperial College London, School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, London, United Kingdom, 4 Division of Clinical Microbiology & Molecular Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India, 5 Department of Health and Family Welfare, Government of Bihar, Bihar, India, 6 State Health Society, Bihar, India, 7 Bihar Education Project Council, Bihar, India, 8 School of Life Sciences, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom, 9 Warwick Mathematics Institute, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom, 10 Department of Clinical Sciences, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom, 11 Eastern and Southern Africa Centre of International Parasite Control, Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI), Nairobi, Kenya, 12 Department of Parasitology, University of Kelaniya, Ragama, Sri Lanka, 13 Innovations for Poverty Action, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, 14 Evidence Action, Washington, D.C., United States of America
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