Cochrane Reviews on neglected tropical diseases by the READ-It team

Cochrane Reviews: Neglected tropical diseases

11 Sep 2019

Public health deworming programmes for soil‐transmitted helminths in children living in endemic areas

To summarize the effects of public health programmes to regularly treat all children with deworming drugs on child growth, haemoglobin, cognition, school attendance, school performance, physical fitness, and mortality.

Cochrane Systematic Review: UPDATE

08 Jan 2019

Albendazole alone or in combination with microfilaricidal drugs for lymphatic filariasis

In this Cochrane Review, Cochrane researchers examined the effects of using albendazole alone and albendazole added to antifilarial drugs to treat infected people and people who live in areas with lymphatic filariasis. After searching for relevant trials up to January 2018, we included 13 randomized controlled trials (RCTs), including one cluster‐RCT, with a total of 8713 participants.

Cochrane Systematic Review: UPDATE