About the Problem
The World Health Organization estimates that up to 20 percent of nutritional intake is lost when a child is host to parasitic worms
Parasites can cause malnutrition leading to anaemia, impairments in physical and cognitive development and organ failure
Parasitic worm infections reduce school attendance, literacy and lifetime earnings
Soil-transmitted helminths (hookworm and roundworm) and schistosomes (bilharzia) occur wherever inadequate water and sanitation conditions prevail
Worms are common in sub-Saharan Africa, South and East Asia and some parts of Latin America and the Caribbean
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