Past appeals Treated like a child: Treating very young children for parasitic worms in Zanzibar Year: 2025 Campaign aim: To deliver a newly available treatment to 20,000 pre-school aged children at risk of schistosomiasis in Zanzibar, protecting them from the risk of pain, organ damage and impaired physical and cognitive development. Fundraising target: £100,000 Funds raised: £117,000 Impact of your donations: The treatment campaign is currently in the preparation phase and is expected to take place in autumn 2026. Down to Zero: Treating children for STH in Côte d’Ivoire Year: July 2025 Campaign aim: To treat up to 425,000 children aged 5–14 across seven health districts of Côte d’Ivoire, including the final district highly infected with soil-transmitted helminthiasis. Target: £100,000 Funds raised: £93,832 Impact of your donations: At least 425,000 children received treatment in seven districts of the most highly infected districts of Côte d’Ivoire. Finalised data on the impact of treatment on the proportion of people infected with schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted helminthiasis is not yet available. This data will be reported on here following the next planned impact assessment. (Date to be confirmed.) Worms can’t run: The end of the road for parasitic disease, Malawi. Year: 2024 Campaign aim: Implement a more cost-effective and accurate method for targeting treatment in Malawi, allowing concentration of resources where they can have the greatest impact on people’s health. Target: £100,000 Funds raised: £123,000 Impact of your donations: The appeal has enabled planning for the targeting of cost-effective treatment on the most highly affected districts, potentially saving money, making disease control efforts more evidence-led, sustainable and cost-effective, and bringing elimination of parasitic disease closer. The disease mapping has suggested that the prevalence of both diseases may have reduced significantly since 2021, pointing to the success of Malawi’s Unlimit Health-supported parasitic disease control programme. (In 2021 in 99% of health districts showed a high prevalence of schistosomiasis. This assessment showed that the figure is 52%. STH prevalence is now less than 2% in the majority of districts) She is seen: Preventing parasitic disease in young women Year: 2023 Ask: To support women at risk of female genital schistosomiasis (FGS) in Côte d’Ivoire to receive the preventive treatment and health education they need. The campaign will provided services for up to 140,600 women over two years and enable the future roll-out of FGS services across the whole of Côte d’Ivoire. Target: £100,000 Funds raised: £123,000 Impact of your donations: Subject to some unavoidable delays, the project has now completed necessary preparatory work with key groups in the Côte d’Ivoire health system. This is intended to enable the smooth integration of FGS services into the health system over the coming months, involving training of hundreds of frontline healthcare workers and the provision of services and healthcare information to thousands of women at risk from FGS.