Objectives

Through its work, Children Without Worms (CWW) strives to achieve the following program objectives:

1. To support recipient countries in reducing STH infections as a public health and child development problem in accord with the 2001 resolution of the World Health Assembly. CWW does this by donating mebendazole to children in communities with the heaviest worm burden to reduce associated morbidities, enhance education and promote child development.
2. To encourage recipient countries to establish a comprehensive and sustainable STH control policy that combines mass deworming treatment with the promotion of health behavior change and improvements in sanitation and safe water supplies.
3. To increase the use of effective country-level partnerships for STH control.