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 Assessment of baseline level prevalence and
intensities of STH infections by ecological zones in all countries;
Ensuring sustainability of the on-going deworming programmes and
evaluation of the impact of ongoing deworming programmes;
Initiating school deworming
in areas with high endemicity where deworming has not been started, with special focus on India and Indonesia;
Promoting integration of deworming
with other mass health intervention programmes,
such as:
 Vitamin A supplementation programmes
(e.g. Bangladesh and Nepal)
Lymphatic Filariasis
(LF) mass drug administration (MDA) in LF endemic countries
School feeding programmes
(e.g. Bangladesh and Nepal)
School health programmes
(e.g. Sri Lanka and Thailand)
Ante-natal care programmes
(e.g. Sri Lanka)
Developing new partnerships and maintaining
and expanding the existing partnerships for deworming
in the Region.
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