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Deworming needs to be accompanied by health awareness campaigns in order to reduce diseases from parasitic worms.
It’s a problem when much of what winds up in scientific journals isn’t replicable, for various reasons. The research community is taking baby steps toward addressing the “reproducibility crisis.”
A re-analysis of research into deworming interventions at Kenyan schools has confirmed some findings and disputed others. However, it does not take away from the programme’s effectiveness.
The re-analysis of data can provide valuable new findings and it can improve transparency, accountability, and strengthen the literature that policymakers base their decisions on.
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Research Officer, Institute of Medical Research and Medicinal Plant Studies (Cameroon) and Research fellow, University of Cape Town
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Oxfam Professor of Environmental and Resource Economics, University of California, Berkeley
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Research Fellow in Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
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Director, Centre for Evaluation, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
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