Monitoring and evaluating the impact of national school-based deworming in Kenya: Study design and baseline results

Parasites and Vectors

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Mwandawiro, Charles S ^a   Nikolay, Birgit ^b   Kihara, Jimmy H ^a,c   Ozier, Owen ^d   Mukoko, Dunstan A ^c   Mwanje, Mariam T ^c   Hakobyan, Anna ^e   Pullan, Rachel L ^b   Brooker, Simon J ^b,f   Njenga, Sammy M ^a  

^a KENYA MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^c Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation   (Kenya)

^d WORLD BANK   (United States)

^e Children's Investment Fund Foundation   (United Kingdom)

^f KEMRI WELLCOME TRUST RESEARCH PROGRAMME   (Kenya)

Author keywords

Kenya; Monitoring and evaluation; Schistosomiasis; School based deworming; Soil transmitted helminths

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; BLOOD SAMPLING; CHILD; DEWORMING; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HOOKWORM; HOOKWORM INFECTION; HUMAN; KENYA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROSCOPY; MONITORING; NONHUMAN; POPULATION SIZE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SCHOOL CHILD; SKIN TINGLING;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMALS; BLOOD CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MONITORING; FECES; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; KENYA; MALE; MICROSCOPY; NEMATODA; NEMATODE INFECTIONS; PREVALENCE; SCHISTOSOMA; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SCHOOLS; TOPOGRAPHY, MEDICAL; URINE;

ANCYLOSTOMATOIDEA; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; SCHISTOSOMA; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; TRICHURIS TRICHIURA; VERMES;

EID: 84879805047     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17563305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-3305-6-198     Document Type: Article

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