Population deworming every 6 months with albendazole in 1 million pre-school children in north India: DEVTA, a cluster-randomised trial
The LancetPublished 13 March 2013Open access
Shally Awasthi, Richard Peto, Simon Read, Susan Richards, Vinod Kumar Pande, Donald A. P. Bundy
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Existing ICDS village staff can be organised to deliver simple pre- school interventions sustainably for many years at low cost, but regular deworming had little effect on mortality in this lightly infected pre-school population of north India.
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UK Medical Research Council, USAID, World Bank (albendazole donated by GlaxoSmithKline).
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