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January 30, 2024

DW3 Spotlight on World NTD Day

Read the full story on Global WACh On World Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTD) Day, we celebrate the accomplishments of the DeWorm3 study in the fight against NTDs and call on the global health community to renew our commitment to creating a healthier, more equitable world for all. DeWorm3 is a large clinical trial that aims to determine…

Neglected Tropical Diseases Day: How a DGH Study is Making Strides Towards STH Elimination

Read the full story at UW Department of Global Health. Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) are a group of 20 conditions, such as dengue, leprosy, and intestinal worms. NTDs affect over 1 billion people globally, and are associated with devastating health, social, and economic outcomes including permanent disability and impoverishment. The World Health Organization (WHO) aims…

August 18, 2023

DeWorm3 study publishes new papers, contributing to research on interrupting parasitic worms through community-wide mass drug administration

Read the full story on Global WACh. The DeWorm3 research team continues to contribute to their body of research on the feasibility of interrupting soil-transmitted helminth (STH) transmission through community-wide mass drug administration (cMDA) in Benin, Malawi and India. Three new publications to highlight include the “Soil-transmitted helminth surveillance in Benin: A mixed-methods analysis of…

July 29, 2023

DeWorm3 Collaboration with Quantigen

Read the full story on Quantigen News. DeWorm3 Soil-transmitted helminths (STH) are parasitic worms associated with numerous health problems, including chronic malnutrition. The WHO estimates that one-quarter of the world’s population is currently infected. DeWorm3 is a five-year surveillance study, examining the effectiveness of a mass-drug administration (MDA) protocol to interrupt STH transmission among affected populations in India, Benin, and Malawi. Quantigen and its DeWorm3 collaborators have validated a…

January 11, 2023

“Uninformative research” is the global health crisis you’ve never heard of

See the original article by the Gates Foundation here Historians like to fight about whether Francis Bacon or Galileo Galilei invented the scientific method. Either way, we’ve been relying on it for going on 500 years. Here’s how it works: You 1) observe the world around you, 2) make a hypothesis based on your observations,…

January 9, 2023

Dr. Claire Gwayi-Chore presents DeWorm3 findings on optimal delivery of community-wide mass drug administration for intestinal parasitic worm infections

Read the full story on Global WACh The DeWorm3 Study recently published findings regarding the cost, acceptability, and optimal delivery of community-wide mass drug administration (cMDA) for or parasitic intestinal worms (soil-transmitted helminths (STH)), in Benin, India, and Malawi. As part of the efforts to disseminate these findings, Dr. Claire Gwayi-Chore, Project Lead of several neglected tropical diseases studies…

August 18, 2022

DeWorm3 generates evidence about the cost, acceptability, and optimal delivery of community-wide mass drug administration

Read the full story on Global WACh. The DeWorm3 Study is an ongoing series of community cluster randomized controlled trials that use a community-wide drug administration (cMDA) approach to determine whether deworming both children and adults can disrupt the transmission of soil-transmitted helminth (STH), or parasitic intestinal worms, across multiple geographies including India, Malawi, and Benin. Achieving…

October 12, 2021

DeWorm3 Implementation Science

Read full story on Coalition for Operational Research on Neglected Tropical Disease Research question The DeWorm3 Project is a series of hybrid trials testing the feasibility of interrupting the transmission of soil transmitted helminths (STH), while conducting implementation science research that contextualizes clinical research findings and provides guidance on opportunities to optimize delivery of STH…

February 25, 2021

DeWorm3 Study to interrupt transmission of parasitic worms moves to UW Global WACh

Read the full story by Global WACh Global WACh is pleased to announce we are now hosting the DeWorm3 Study, an ongoing community cluster randomized controlled trial. The study uses a community-wide drug administration approach to determine whether deworming both children and adults can disrupt the transmission of soil-transmitted helminth (STH), or parasitic intestinal worms…

January 30, 2021

DeWorm3 celebrates World NTD Day 2021

Read the full story at NHM The DeWorm3 Programme is a large-scale, five-year, community cluster randomised trial in India, Malawi and Benin which seeks to determine the feasibility of interrupting the transmission of soil-transmitted helminth infections (STH). Managed from a central hub at the Natural History Museum since 2015, DeWorm3 is supported by a vast…