Feed the Children International Supports the NTD Control programme

Feed the Children International is a non-profit relief organisation which helps provide food, clothes and drugs to those in need.

In November 2007, Feed the Children International donated 1 million tablets of Mebendazole to the Burundian NTD Control programme in order to support its effort in deworming the children of Burundi. Indeed, Mebendazole is a very effective drug against the soil-transmitted helminths (Ascaris lumbricoides, Trichuris trichiura and the hookworms), which are one of seven NTDs targeted by the national NTD Control programme in Burundi.

Owing to this donation, the programme will be able to distribute the so dearly needed drug to 1 million more children than it had first expected to treat and for this the whole team at the NTD Control programme would like to deeply thank Feed the Children International, on behalf of the Burundian population, especially its children.