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Unlimit Health (formerly known as the SCI Foundation) is an international organisation working to end parasitic disease.
They work closely with affected countries, sharing evidence and expertise to eliminate preventable infections. Their purpose is to support people to live healthy lives, free from limiting disease.
Since 2002, they have supported ministries of health to deliver over a billion highly cost-effective treatments against parasitic infections, the majority to children, and thus have helped prevent debilitating disease in hundreds of millions of people.
Unlimit Health’s main area of focus is the elimination of schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted helminthiases (intestinal worms). Endemic infections of these parasitic worms are found in some of the world’s most marginalised communities, and they can have a hugely detrimental effect on individuals, including:
Reduced productivity
Internal organ damage
Impaired child development
Reduced school attendance
Increased risk of HIV in women
Infertility
Unlimit Health is a former GiveWell top charity and recent GiveWell grantee. For more information, visit SCI’s website, or read GiveWell’s report on their work.
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Unlimit Health works in partnership with governments in Sub-Saharan Africa to support robust public health programmes that reduce the impact of preventable diseases like parasitic worm infections.
Latest updates from Unlimit Health
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Donations at work in Tanzania
14 June, 2024
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![A survey team member in Rosso Ville, Mauritania, showing a praziquantel tablet to a school-aged child. He is administering the household questionnaire to the child, her mother, and a senior family member. Photo by: Unlimit Health]()
Evaluating the reach and performance of treatment campaigns in Mauritania
13 June, 2024
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![Living with schistosomiasis: Salvatory’s story]()
Living with schistosomiasis: Salvatory’s story
4 April, 2024
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![Midwife, Bailly Nadège, said: “Women wash laundry in the rivers."]()
An unspoken taboo impacting women’s health
7 March, 2024
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![Sylviane at the RSTMH annual lecture, receiving a prize for best academic poster from Dr Wendy Harrison and Prof Margaret Gyapong, co-Presidents Elect.]()
Q&A with Sylviane Miharisoa, entomologist in Madagascar
8 February, 2024
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![Nyende from Uganda standing near his boat. Image courtesy of Unlimit Health]()
How Nyende keeps his community safe from disease
31 March, 2023
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No limits to playing football
31 March, 2023
FAQs
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Parasitic worms have complex life cycles that affect people without access to clean water and sanitation. For further information about how people become infected, see Unlimit Health’s information on schistosomiasis and intestinal worms.
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Treatment is very effective: programmes can reduce parasitic worm infection levels by 60% after just one round of treatment.
However, multiple approaches will be needed to eliminate these diseases. Visit Unlimit Health’s website for more information about how they plan to do this.
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Anyone can become infected with parasitic worm infections and they support programmes that aim to treat all individuals at risk of infection according to the guidelines of the World Health Organization. However, the majority of programmes focus on the treatment of school-age children (5-14 years old) to improve their opportunities of growth and learning, reduce the development of severe complications, and due to the ease of distributing treatment in schools.