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Effects, equity, and cost of school-based and community-wide treatment strategies for soil-transmitted helminths in Kenya: a cluster-randomised controlled trial Rachel L Pullan, PhD, Katherine E Halliday, PhD, William E Oswald, PhD, Carlos Mcharo, Emma Beaumont, MSc, Stella Kepha, PhD, Stefan Witek-McManus, MSc, Paul M Gichuki, MSc, Prof Elizabeth Allen, PhD, Tom Drake, PhD, Catherine Pitt, MSc, Sultani H Matendechero, MPharm, Marie-Claire Gwayi-Chore, MSc, Prof Roy M Anderson, PhD, Sammy M Njenga, PhD, Prof Simon J Brooker, DPhil, Charles S Mwandawiro, PhD The Lancet DOI: /S (18) Copyright © 2019 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an Open Access article under CC-BY 4.0 license Terms and Conditions
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Figure 1 Study profile 120 community units were randomly assigned to either routine school-based deworming or community-wide treatment delivered once or twice a year. No community units were lost to follow up, and none discontinued the intervention. All communities were included in the analysis at 12 and 24 months. Reported cluster sizes are based on the updated sampling frame used for the 24-month evaluation survey. Additional information regarding households and individuals not reached are provided in appendix. The Lancet DOI: ( /S (18) ) Copyright © 2019 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an Open Access article under CC-BY 4.0 license Terms and Conditions
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Figure 2 Map of the study area
Kwale County consists of four subcounties, all of which were included in the trial. The inset shows the location of Kwale County in Kenya. The Lancet DOI: ( /S (18) ) Copyright © 2019 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an Open Access article under CC-BY 4.0 license Terms and Conditions
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