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This case study investigates how collaboration between the Korean Association for Parasite Eradication, a small coalition of dedicated South Korean parasitologists and health professionals, and the Korean government overcame numerous delivery challenges to sustain a nation-wide deworming campaign for two decades, until the World Health Organization declared the country essentially worm-free in 1997.
South Korea relied on nation-wide, school-based administration of stool tests and deworming pills for close to two decades from 1969 till 1997 to effectively do away with the intestinal worm infection. Worm infection was indeed pervasive before the campaign: the infection rates were over 80% in the overall population.
Overcoming delivery challenges for national deworming in South Korea
- Overcoming delivery challenges for national deworming in South Korea
- Kim, Taejong
- Global Delivery Initiative; KDI School
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Overcoming delivery challenges for national deworming in South Korea
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| Material Type | Report |
| Author(English) |
Kim, Taejong |
| Publisher |
[Sejong] : Global Delivery Initiative; KDI School |
| Date | 2019-05 |
| Series Title; No | Global Delivery Initiative |
| Subject Country | South Korea(Asia and Pacific) |
| Language | English |
| File Type | Link |
| Subject | Social Development < Population Social Development < Health Official Aid < Social Infrastructure |
| Holding | Global Delivery Initiative |
| License |  |
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