Neglected Tropical Diseases

The NTD Initiative

Invitation to Participate in the 2010 Deworming Inventory

USAID is pleased to share the following announcement from the Global NGO Deworming Inventory.

The Global NGO Deworming Inventory was launched in June of 2010, with the explicit purpose of assessing the breadth and scope of NGO deworming activities and their treatment achievements worldwide. The Inventory collates data on NGO deworming activities and presents an overview of who is deworming where, and how many children are being treated. Data from the Inventory are then shared with the WHO Preventive Chemotherapy Databank to compile NGO deworming data with data from ministries of health, and measure collective progress toward the World Health Assembly (WHA) target of treating 75 percent of school-age children at risk of infection with intestinal worms.

Results from the 2009 Inventory

Twenty-four NGOs participated in the 2009 Deworming Inventory and reported about 62.8 million treatments (school-age children treated with a deworming drug), of which 20.8 million were unique treatments not previously captured in the WHO databank. These numbers indicate that there is a notable amount of deworming conducted by NGOs that is not recognized at the global level and therefore not reflected in measurements of global progress toward reaching the WHA target.

You Are Invited to Participate

The 2010 Deworming Inventory strives to continue highlighting the achievements of NGO deworming programs and ensure that your efforts are accounted for at the global level. We thank all organizations that participated in last year’s Inventory, and extend the invitation to all organizations with deworming programs to participate in the 2010 Deworming Inventory.

How to Participate

Please visit the Global NGO Deworming Inventory Web site.

For any questions related to this announcement, please e-mail info@deworminginventory.org.