My favorite (yes, I have a favorite dewormer) is Deworm the World.
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Or some other ideas you may not have thought of: Deworm a child.
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In Senegal, for instance, coaches have to deworm and feed some players before they can train them.
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Most of the charities it recommends provide health interventions, such as the Deworm the World Initiative led by Evidence Action.
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One of its core programs, Deworm the World, is a GiveWell-recommended top charity — and No Lean Season was briefly one as well.
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In Senegal, coaches have to deworm and feed some players before they can train them; one official reckons only three places in the country have grass pitches.
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For example, its recommendations of SCI and Deworm the World are based on research suggesting that providing children with deworming treatments improves educational, economic, and other outcomes.
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Most of that money has gone to the SCI Foundation [which works on deworming], Deworm the World, the Against Malaria Foundation, and the Jameel Poverty Action Lab at MIT.
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KIPP and the Nurse-Family Partnership cost more than $10,000 per child served, while deworming programs like SCI's and Deworm the World's generally cost about 50 cents per child treated.
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KIPP and the Nurse-Family Partnership cost more than $10,000 per child served, while deworming programs like SCI's and Deworm the World's generally cost between $0.25 and $13 per child treated.
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We deworm our pets in America, but poor children can't get dewormed even though the cost is less than 50 cents per child; it's one of the highest-return investments available.
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KIPP and the Nurse-Family Partnership cost more than $10,000 per child served, while deworming programs like SCI's and Deworm the World's generally cost between $0.25 and $1 per child treated.
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Deworm yourself Though two-thirds of us may not find earworms offensive, the reality is that at some point, a song may become annoying, and you'll want it to wiggle out of your head.
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That money would go to migration subsidies that, for whatever reason, don't make a difference when distributed in that way, instead of to other, better programs like Evidence Action's Dispensers for Safe Water or Deworm the World.
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In addition to HKI, other efficient charities like the Against Malaria Foundation (which focuses on distributing mosquito nets in sub-Saharan Africa) and Deworm the World (providing deworming medicines) are also highly cost-efficient strategies for promoting health.
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Some of its recommended charities, like Deworm the World and the three other GiveWell top charities that implement deworming programs, are public health charities that GiveWell supports in large measure because it thinks they increase incomes in poor countries.
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The initiative was originally an independent organization called Deworm the World, co-founded by development economist Michael Kremer. Initially supported by the Partnership for Child Development and Innovations for Poverty Action, Deworm the World became an initiative of Evidence Action in late 2013.
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The Deworm the World Initiative is a program led by the nonprofit Evidence Action that works to support governments in developing school-based deworming programs in Kenya, India, Ethiopia, and Vietnam. Deworm the World supports the governments of India and Kenya in their respective national school-based deworming programs, and works with the Schistosomiasis Control Initiative in supporting Ethiopia's national school-based deworming program.
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She is on leave as an affiliated researcher of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL). Earlier she was the Executive Director of J-PAL till 2017 and the lead academic for Sierra Leone at the International Growth Centre, a research centre based jointly at The London School of Economics and Political Science and the University of Oxford.IGC Country Teams: Sierra Leone. She helped establish the Deworm the World Initiative, a program that targets increased access to education and improved health from the elimination of intestinal worms for at-risk children, and has helped "deworm" millions of children worldwide.
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There are currently only two donor-funded non-governmental organizations that focus exclusively on NTDs: the Schistosomiasis Control Initiative and Deworm the World. Despite under-funding, many neglected diseases are cost-effective to treat and prevent. The cost of treating a child for infection of soil transmitted helminths and schistosomes (some of the main causes of neglected diseases), is less than US$0.50 per year, when administered as part of school-based mass deworming by Deworm the World. This programme is recommended by Giving What We Can and the Copenhagen Consensus Centre as one of the most efficient and cost-effective solutions.
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The Deworm the World Initiative (a project of the non- governmental organization Evidence Action), the END Fund (founded by Legatum Foundation in 2012), the Schistosomiasis Control Initiative and Sightsavers are some of the highest-rated charities by the international evaluator Givewell because of the low cost of deworming children, large-scale implementation, and wider benefits to society.
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The UN is involved in mass deworming programmes via the World Food Programme, UNICEF and World Health Organization. NGOs involved in deworming advocacy or delivery include: the Schistosomiasis Control Initiative, the Deworm the World Initiative from Evidence Action, Goods For Good, Save the Children, Counterpart International, Helen Keller International, the Carter Center, Inmed Partnerships for Children, Operation Blessing International, and Children Without Worms.
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Volunteer Partnerships for West Africa (VPWA) is a volunteer-driven, non- profit NGO based in Ghana, which aims to promote better life opportunities for people in underprivileged communities through sustainable development initiatives. VPWA has pioneered several social innovations in the region, including micro leasing, the establishment of a Children and Youth Development Centre in the Eastern Region of Ghana, and campaigns such as Deworm Ghana, Green Ghana, Kick Malaria Out, and Street Library.
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The investigations were funded by GiveWell. They cited three concerns with the program: parents' and children's concerns about side effects of the deworming medication, religious concerns, and the fact that the program did not reach students not enrolled in school. Responding to the report, GiveWell said that it did not raise any red flags for its recommendation of Deworm the World Initiative. Evidence Action also responded at length to the observations made in the report.
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This strategy is now recommended by most veterinarians and parasitologists, as it reduces the probability of resistance. For horses that are consistently deemed "low shedders," it is still recommended to deworm at least 1-2 times per year with ivermectin + praziquantel or moxidectin + praziquantel to target tapeworms, bots, and small strongyles. This is typically done in the fall and spring. Dewormers come in several forms, including pastes, gels, powders, and granules or pellets.
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In order to prevent relapse after giving birth, women also bathe themselves in cooled-down water boiled with sahagubit roots. The drinking of sahagubit herbal tea is likewise recommended to deworm Aeta children, or generally to alleviate stomachache. For birth control purposes, Aeta women drink wine made out of lukban (pomelo) root. They are, however, not advised to drink herbal tea from makahiya extract even if it's also used to elevate stomachache problems due to the belief that it will cause abortion.
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The tree has various uses as an herbal medicine in a wide range of cultures. The leaves and the bark are used to treat coughs, sore throats, asthma, bronchitis, gonorrhea, yellow fever, toothache, and as an antidote to general poisoning. A bark infusion is reportedly drunk to control dysentery and a leaf decoction is used to deworm dogs. In recent pharmacological studies, an aqueous extract from the bark has been shown to reduce blood sugar levels in an experimental animal model of diabetes mellitus, and may be useful for treating this disease.
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Parasiticides which are effective against the larvae include macrolytic lactones, such as ivermectin and moxidectin, and organophosphates, such as metrifonate (also known as trichlorphon) and dichlorvos. The best time to deworm horses against Gasterophilus intestinalis is after the first hard frost. This hard frost will kill the females so no new eggs can be laid on the horse that can be ingested. Meaning that the dewormer is acting on the larva attached to the stomach and will also decrease the amount of larva shed in the feces in the spring.
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Giving What We Can (GWWC) published a detailed review of PHC, along with a case study of its food fortification efforts in Rwanda. Based on this, GWWC listed PHC among its two promising charities, alongside the Deworm the World Initiative (but below the established charities Against Malaria Foundation and Schistosomiasis Control Initiative. PHC was first added to GWWC's list of top charities on May 16, 2013. Explaining the decision to add them, GWWC's Robert Wiblin wrote that PHC was pursuing a promising, low-cost, high-upside approach and seemed to have strong overall competency at executing it.
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Moskovitz speaking at Web Summit 2017 Moskovitz co-founded the philanthropic organization Good Ventures with his girlfriend (and now wife) Cari Tuna in 2011. In June 2012, Good Ventures announced a close partnership with charity evaluator GiveWell. Both organizations "are aiming to do as much good as possible" and thereby align with the goals of effective altruism. Good Ventures has donated approximately $100 million from 2011 onward to GiveWell top charities Against Malaria Foundation, GiveDirectly, Schistosomiasis Control Initiative, and Deworm the World Initiative, as well as standout charities (see Good Ventures for more) and other effective altruist organizations.
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As of August 2019, Open Philanthropy has made around 650 grants to over 370 unique organizations, disbursing a total of $857 million. Notable grantees include Deworm the World Initiative ($69.5m), the Malaria Consortium ($59.5m), the Center for Security and Emerging Technology ($55m), GiveDirectly ($54.8m), the Against Malaria Foundation ($49.2m), OpenAI ($30m), the Schistosomiasis Control Initiative ($23.5m) the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security ($18.9m), Sherlock Biosciences ($17.5m), The Humane League ($17.3m), Helen Keller International ($13.7m), the Nuclear Threat Initiative ($11.9m), the Future of Humanity Institute ($12m), the Centre for Effective Altruism ($12.9m), and 80000 Hours ($6.4m).
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According to the World Health Organization, worm infections are one of the most common long-term infections of children in low-income countries, and deworming is the most cost-effective method to significantly increase primary school attendance and a child's ability to learn in school. VPWA's annual Deworm outreach program involves volunteers going from school to school, community to community, treating children against worm infections by administering Mebendazole and Albendazole. Volunteers also encourage parents to regularly seek deworming treatment for their children and explain how cultivating habits such as wearing shoes outside, avoiding non-potable water, and washing fruits and vegetables before consumption can curb the incidence of worm infections.
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Continuous dewormers are a mild low dose and may be easier on the horse, but may not be effective in quickly killing worms in a heavily-infected horse and may contribute to drug resistance. If a treatment doesn't kill at least 95% of a worm species, that species is classed as 'resistant' to the drug. For adult horses, frequent rotation of several types of dewormers is no longer recommended, as it can often lead to overtreatment and subsequent drug resistance. Another way of combating drug resistance in adult horses is to deworm less frequently, by performing fecal egg counts on manure and deworming only horses with a high count.
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In November 2015, GiveWell recommended that Good Ventures donate $10.8 million to the organization, and identified a funding gap of $11.4 million for the organization, though the entire funding for the organization's planned 2016 activities was covered. , charity evaluator GiveWell has recommended the program as one of its top charities since 2013. In November 2016, GiveWell recommended that Good Ventures donate $4.5 million to the organization, out of Good Ventures' $50 million budget for GiveWell's top charities. In September 2015, GiveWell published a report based on field investigations carried out by Jacob Kushner and Anthony Langat of the National School-Based Deworming Program conducted by the government of Kenya with technical assistance from Deworm the World Initiative.
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Although J-PAL was founded as a research center, its activities have expanded to encompass three areas: impact evaluations, policy outreach, and capacity building. To date, a network of over 170 J-PAL affiliated professors has carried out more than 948 evaluations in 81 countries, and J-PAL has trained over 1,500 people in impact evaluation. These evaluations include everything from an analysis of the effectiveness of glasses in China in improving student test scores to a study on the value of deworming to improve student attendance and academic performance in Kenya. This work, by Michael Kremer and Edward Miguel, provided the impetus for the Deworm the World initiative, which has since reached over 20 million children.
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Global poverty alleviation has been a focus of some of the earliest and most prominent organizations associated with effective altruism. Charity evaluator GiveWell was founded by Holden Karnofsky and Elie Hassenfeld in 2007 to address poverty and is part of the effective altruism community. GiveWell has argued that the value of donations is greatest for international poverty alleviation and developing world health issues, and its leading recommendations have been in these domains (including malaria prevention charities Against Malaria Foundation and Malaria Consortium, deworming charities Schistosomiasis Control Initiative and Deworm the World Initiative, and GiveDirectly for direct unconditional cash transfers). The effective altruism organization The Life You Can Save, which originated from Singer's book by the same name, also works to alleviate global poverty by promoting evidence-backed charities, conducting philanthropy education, and changing the culture of giving in affluent countries.
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