CAR: WFP begins effort to rid school children of parasites

The UN World Food Programme (WFP) started on Friday a two-year effort to rid primary school children of parasites in four provinces in the Central African Republic, WFP representative David Bulman told IRIN. The schools are in the provinces of Ombella Mpoko, Lobaye, Kemo and Nana Grebizi. The three-classroom Gbaloko Primary School, 16 km outside the capital, Bangui, is the first to benefit from the programme, which will provide the anti-parasitic drugs Mebendazole and Praziquantel to the students twice a year.