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News for the STH Control Community. Children Without Worms. Sharing Knowledge and Success StoriesBolivia, April 25, 2012. In 2011, Izumi Foundation awarded CWW a grant to help Bolivia's Ministry of Health and Sport (MSyD) develop and implement an STH control pilot project. The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) was asked to participate in the project due to their success with a similar project done in 2008 to address fasciola infection. The STH control project, designed around the assumption that infection rates strongly relate to the ecological conditions of an area, will start by mapping "ecoregions." Read full article...

Last Updated on Friday, 18 May 2012 06:01
 

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