Where strongyloidiasis is common enough that ivermectin should be added to school deworming
- Good it would do
- 4 / 5
- Can AI help
- 3 / 5
- How neglected
- 4 / 5
- Can we check it
- 3 / 5
Why it's stuck
1 percent of the world), with a very wide range of 313 to 910 million. The authors describe the burden as highly uncertain.
What we'd try
Pool every published prevalence survey, correct each for the accuracy of its test, and fit a district-level geostatistical model with climate, soil, sanitation and household survey data. Check by holding back surveys by country, and later against new surveys using better blood tests.
What could stop us
Few strongyloidiasis surveys use good tests, so a district map may rest mostly on covariates, and the held-out check can only test against the same weak data.
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