School-based Deworming Programme in Bihar

In Bihar, over 17 million children were targeted for deworming treatment using Albendazole. Albendazole is drug recommended by the World Health Organization to combat parasitic worms, and has been safely used to treat hundreds of millions of children worldwide. This was the third round of deworming using Albendazole in Bihar state, and the number of children targeted makes it the world's largest school-based deworming initiative. These 17 million school-age children, ...