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Today, we share seven key pointers to help you, as a horse owner, plan a parasite control program for your horse. In this episode, you will learn how to formulate a parasite program and how to prepare your horse for it. We will also explain how to schedule your program effectively and responsibly.Understanding the Role of Parasites in Equine HealthParasites can affect the health of horses significantly, and they can worsen problems in horses with ulcers, digestive issues, or chronic colic. So, owners should tailor their parasite management to suit the history and needs of each horse.Fecal Testing: A Useful but Limited ToolEven though fecal tests are helpful to monitor parasite loads, they should not be relied upon, as they do not detect every type of parasite, and they may not be effective when the parasites are in certain life stages or encysted in the gut lining. Living environments, pasture management, and herd dynamics can influence parasite exposure and infection risk. So, fecal testing should be part of a broader monitoring system that includes seasonal timing, observation of symptoms, and an understanding of the regional parasite risks.The Limitations of Natural DewormersChemical dewormers are necessary when dealing with high parasite loads, as although herbs and homeopathic remedies can support intestinal health and help preventinfestations, they cannot be relied on for treating active infections. Using only herbs in such cases may lead to severe or irreversible damage.The Dangers of Over-DewormingOverusing chemical dewormers could lead to parasite resistance and damage the horse's microbiome. Deworming too often or using the same chemical repeatedly allows the parasites to adapt and reduces the effectiveness of the deworming treatments. It could also add to the growing issue of parasite resistance across all animal species.Deworming StrategicallyStrategic deworming supports equine health and helps to reduce dewormer resistance in parasites. Strategic deworming means considering the parasite risk of your horse rather than relying on a fixed schedule, reducing the risk of over-deworming, and allowing the deworming drugs to remain effective. Factors like the age of the horse, its health status, pasture conditions, seasonal parasite patterns, and regional risks should all inform your deworming decisions.Handling Deworming Challenges In cases where horses are averse to oral administration of dewormers, training is the answer. Owners can work with trainers or use temporary strategies like mixing dewormers with foods the horse enjoys.When Is the Best Time to Deworm?To time deworming treatments, owners should consider seasonal parasite activity and fecal egg count results. In temperate climates, deworming in late winter or early spring helps reduce pasture contamination before peak parasite transmission in late summer and early fall. Avoid treating during extreme heat or cold when parasites are less active. Some owners prefer to deworm just before or after the full moon, but there is no scientific evidence proving the effectiveness of that.Strengthening the Hindgut and Immune SystemA healthy gut creates an environment less hospitable to parasites. Supporting digestive immunity with good nutrition and high-quality probiotics helps fortify horses, supports their overall health, and reduces their susceptibility to infestations.Links and resources:Connect with Elisha Edwards on her website Join my email list to be notified about new...
Do atoms carry memory of information? What happens when dopamine circuits are interrupted? Why might you hiccup when you shave? Why do both kidneys fail when they're separate? Could a falling bullet injure you? Is it important to be de-wormed? Dr Chris Smith and Relebogile Mabotja have all the answers... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
Do atoms carry memory of information? What happens when dopamine circuits are interrupted? Why might you hiccup when you shave? Why do both kidneys fail when they're separate? Could a falling bullet injure you? Is it important to be de-wormed? Dr Chris Smith and Relebogile Mabotja have all the answers... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
If someone said a global health and development programme was sustainable, participatory, and holistic, you'd have to guess that they were saying something positive. But according to today's guest Karen Levy — deworming pioneer and veteran of Innovations for Poverty Action, Evidence Action, and Y Combinator — each of those three concepts has become so fashionable that they're at risk of being seriously overrated and applied where they don't belong.Rebroadcast: this episode was originally released in March 2022.Links to learn more, highlights, and full transcript.Such concepts might even cause harm — trying to make a project embody all three is as likely to ruin it as help it flourish.First, what do people mean by 'sustainability'? Usually they mean something like the programme will eventually be able to continue without needing further financial support from the donor. But how is that possible? Governments, nonprofits, and aid agencies aim to provide health services, education, infrastructure, financial services, and so on — and all of these require ongoing funding to pay for materials and staff to keep them running.Given that someone needs to keep paying, Karen tells us that in practice, 'sustainability' is usually a euphemism for the programme at some point being passed on to someone else to fund — usually the national government. And while that can be fine, the national government of Kenya only spends $400 per person to provide each and every government service — just 2% of what the US spends on each resident. Incredibly tight budgets like that are typical of low-income countries.'Participatory' also sounds nice, and inasmuch as it means leaders are accountable to the people they're trying to help, it probably is. But Karen tells us that in the field, ‘participatory' usually means that recipients are expected to be involved in planning and delivering services themselves.While that might be suitable in some situations, it's hardly something people in rich countries always want for themselves. Ideally we want government healthcare and education to be high quality without us having to attend meetings to keep it on track — and people in poor countries have as many or more pressures on their time. While accountability is desirable, an expectation of participation can be as much a burden as a blessing.Finally, making a programme 'holistic' could be smart, but as Karen lays out, it also has some major downsides. For one, it means you're doing lots of things at once, which makes it hard to tell which parts of the project are making the biggest difference relative to their cost. For another, when you have a lot of goals at once, it's hard to tell whether you're making progress, or really put your mind to focusing on making one thing go extremely well. And finally, holistic programmes can be impractically expensive — Karen tells the story of a wonderful 'holistic school health' programme that, if continued, was going to cost 3.5 times the entire school's budget.In this in-depth conversation, originally released in March 2022, Karen Levy and host Rob Wiblin chat about the above, as well as:Why it pays to figure out how you'll interpret the results of an experiment ahead of timeThe trouble with misaligned incentives within the development industryProjects that don't deliver value for money and should be scaled downHow Karen accidentally became a leading figure in the push to deworm tens of millions of schoolchildrenLogistical challenges in reaching huge numbers of people with essential servicesLessons from Karen's many-decades careerAnd much moreChapters:Cold open (00:00:00)Rob's intro (00:01:33)The interview begins (00:02:21)Funding for effective altruist–mentality development projects (00:04:59)Pre-policy plans (00:08:36)‘Sustainability', and other myths in typical international development practice (00:21:37)‘Participatoriness' (00:36:20)‘Holistic approaches' (00:40:20)How the development industry sees evidence-based development (00:51:31)Initiatives in Africa that should be significantly curtailed (00:56:30)Misaligned incentives within the development industry (01:05:46)Deworming: the early days (01:21:09)The problem of deworming (01:34:27)Deworm the World (01:45:43)Where the majority of the work was happening (01:55:38)Logistical issues (02:20:41)The importance of a theory of change (02:31:46)Ways that things have changed since 2006 (02:36:07)Academic work vs policy work (02:38:33)Fit for Purpose (02:43:40)Living in Kenya (03:00:32)Underrated life advice (03:05:29)Rob's outro (03:09:18)Producer: Keiran HarrisAudio mastering: Ben Cordell and Ryan KesslerTranscriptions: Katy Moore
Welcome back to another hilarious episode of Two Tired Therapists! This week, Jackie and Kyle take on the Ask a Therapist subreddit, answering burning questions from people seeking advice on everything that their therapist does and how to find a good one (like your favorites!). But first, Kyle is completely over deworming and then posting a picture of their poop online—why is this even a thing?! After hearing that, Jackie talks about being exhausted by the oversharing epidemic on social media—some things are better left unsaid (looking at you dewormers)!In this episode, your favorite therapists read through some interesting and puzzling questions from the Ask a Therapist subreddit, offering their professional insights mixed with plenty of laughs. From wondering if your therapist is purposely trying to piss you off and if they have favorite clients, Kyle and Jackie dish out practical advice and a few reality checks. At the end, they attempt a Buzzfeed trivia quiz and quickly realize they would never survive on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire—but at least they'll leave you laughing!Connect with your Two Tired Therapists on Instagram (@twotiredtherapists), Facebook (Two Tired Therapists), or send them your thoughts at twotiredtherapists@gmail.com. And don't forget to leave a review—you might just hear it on a future episode!Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/two-tired-therapists--5762941/support.
Hi, travel health listeners! Today, travel medicine specialists Drs. Paul Pottinger ("Germ") & Chris Sanford ("Worm") answer your travel health questions:Should I give leftover medications away to locals at the end of my trip? Is it safe to eat ceviche? Do I need vaccines to visit Germany? Should I take a deworming medication after visiting Latin America? In Laos, is it safer to travel by public bus or private car? How can I reduce the risk of Lyme disease? We hope you enjoy this podcast! If so, please subscribe to our RSS feed and share with your friends! We would so appreciate your rating and review to help us grow our audience. And, please send us your questions and travel health anecdotes: germandworm@gmail.com.Our Disclaimer: The Germ and Worm Podcast is designed to inform, inspire, and entertain. However, this podcast does NOT establish a doctor-patient relationship, and it should NOT replace your conversation with a qualified healthcare professional. Please see one before your next adventure. The opinions in this podcast are Dr. Sanford's & Dr. Pottinger's alone, and do not necessarily represent the opinions of the University of Washington or UW Medicine.
Send us a textENCORE EPISODE: Bringing back one you may have missed in the archives... listen into VINE TIME! Gourds, Pumpkins or Squash?Mike has a mystery fruit growing in NW Ohio, bringing up the question about Cucurbita (Latin for gourd) or herbaceous vines in the gourd family. Then, the alternative use of pumpkin seeds... got to listen in for that ONE ALONE!Black Diamond Garden CentersWelcome Black Diamond Nursery & Lawn Service. We been a local business in Toledo for over 70 years!Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Support the showBlack Diamond Garden Centers; Toledo, Perrysburg and now Waterville Ohio!https://blackdiamondgrows.com/Please visit our Facebook and Instagram links!https://www.facebook.com/yourmidwestgardenpodcast@yourmidwestgardenpodcastHave a show topic, send us a message or call 567-343-1349 and leave an old fashion voice message!
Poop Week by Poseidon Animal Health continues with a look at proper composting techniques with Homesteader Angela Ferraro-Fanning and Sara Beth Speziok, DVM, of Spring Hill Equine, gives us the latest on deworming and what we all should be doing. Plus, some mighty weird news. Listen in… HORSES IN THE MORNING Episode 3517 – Show Notes and Links:Hosts: Glenn the Geek and Jamie Jennings.Title Sponsor: Poseidon Animal HealthGuest: Angela Ferraro-Fanning, Author of “The Sustainable Homestead: Create a Thriving Permaculture Ecosystem with Your Garden, Animals, and Land” | Instagram | YouTube | Podcast | The Sustainable Homestead, Little Homesteader SeriesGuest: Sara Beth Speziok, DVM, MPH of Spring Hill EquineAdditional support for this podcast provided by: The Distance Depot and Listeners Like YouTime Stamps:05:15 - Daily Whinnies10:30 - Poop Poll16:10 - Angela Ferraro-Fanning32:40 - Sara Beth Speziok50:05 - Weird News
Poop Week by Poseidon Animal Health continues with a look at proper composting techniques with Homesteader Angela Ferraro-Fanning and Sara Beth Speziok, DVM, of Spring Hill Equine, gives us the latest on deworming and what we all should be doing. Plus, some mighty weird news. Listen in… HORSES IN THE MORNING Episode 3517 – Show Notes and Links:Hosts: Glenn the Geek and Jamie Jennings.Title Sponsor: Poseidon Animal HealthGuest: Angela Ferraro-Fanning, Author of “The Sustainable Homestead: Create a Thriving Permaculture Ecosystem with Your Garden, Animals, and Land” | Instagram | YouTube | Podcast | The Sustainable Homestead, Little Homesteader SeriesGuest: Sara Beth Speziok, DVM, MPH of Spring Hill EquineAdditional support for this podcast provided by: The Distance Depot and Listeners Like YouTime Stamps:05:15 - Daily Whinnies10:30 - Poop Poll16:10 - Angela Ferraro-Fanning32:40 - Sara Beth Speziok50:05 - Weird News
Horses In The Morning crew and their guest Dr. Seamans take a deep dive into the facts and frustrations of deworming.Host: Coach JennTodays contributors: Horses In The Morning, Dr. Madison Seamans from Cornerstone EquineSupport provided by Kinetic VetEquiShield CK HCAdditional support for this episode provided by HRN AuditorsListen to more podcasts for horse people at Horse Radio Network
Horses In The Morning crew and their guest Dr. Seamans take a deep dive into the facts and frustrations of deworming.Host: Coach JennTodays contributors: Horses In The Morning, Dr. Madison Seamans from Cornerstone EquineSupport provided by Kinetic VetEquiShield CK HCAdditional support for this episode provided by HRN AuditorsListen to more podcasts for horse people at Horse Radio Network
It should come as no surprise that livestock parasites lower feed efficiency and negatively impact immune function, reproductive efficiency, weight, milk yield, calf yield, and carcass weight. We are also aware that the parasitic load leads to liver condemnations and disease transmission. On the program today, we talk about new control deworming methods and backing up those up with fecal sample testing.
Did you even know that "deworming" was a thing???
*There are new restrictions on moving dairy cattle across state lines. *The state's first anthrax case of the year has been detected. *Recovery continues for Texas ranches burned out by wildfires.*The battle over beef imports from Paraguay takes an interesting turn. *A U.S. Senator from Texas is fighting for fair disaster payments through USDA. *Tight U.S. beef supplies are challenging red meat exporters. *Corn planters are rolling in Lubbock County. *Deworming calves prior to weaning is a good idea.
Sunny weather for California reminds producers spring is around the corner, with promises of flower blooms and with that, worms. Join us to hear what options producers have for herd health.
The well-known benefits of deworming cattle include improved reproduction, higher daily gains, and heavier calves at weaning. However, using an extended-release dewormer could be a game changer.
Did you know that you're full of parasites that can throw your gut's entire ecosystem out of balance, wreaking havoc on your health? We're meeting with Dr. Jaban Moore to talk about his journey from college athlete, to bedridden with illness, ad back to a thriving professional by digging into the tiny microbes that destroyed his health. Topics we cover: Parasites Mold Environmental factors Chronic illness The way out of it all Paleo Valley: Get 15% off your first order of pure Greek Olive Oil More from Titus Unlimited: Instagram: @drjabanmoore YouTube: @DrJabanMoore Facebook: @DrJaban Website: https://drjabanmoore.com/
*Deworming cattle can pay back big returns.*There is a strong potential for wildfires on the Texas High Plains right now. *We should have the results of the latest Census of Agriculture soon. *2023 was a year of ups and downs in the Rio Grande Valley.*One of the most common causes of infertility in mares is early embryonic loss. *There will soon be additional wildlife crossings in Deep South Texas.
In this episode, Dr. Erica Lacher and show host Justin Long have a conversation with Dr. Martin Nielsen of the University of Kentucky, the leading expert on equine parasites in North America. Topics include the current state of dewormers, current best deworming practices, and the current state of research on parasites in horses.
In this enlightening episode of That's Wild, we dive deep into the world of holistic health with a renowned practitioner who shares invaluable insights into understanding the root causes of diseases and the transformative power of holistic healing. Whitney Nichols, a holistic health practitioner with years of experience, sheds light on the importance of addressing the underlying issues that contribute to health problems rather than just treating symptoms. We start by understanding the root causes of diseases and how they are often interconnected, affecting not only our physical health but also our emotional and mental well-being. Our expert provides a holistic perspective on the body's intricate balance and how imbalances can lead to various health issues. Whitney shares valuable tips and advice on the importance of listening to your body, recognizing signs and symptoms, and the role of diagnostic tools in uncovering underlying health issues. We learn about the significance of personalized, integrative approaches to healthcare and how they can provide a more accurate and comprehensive view of one's health. Whitney has a a unique biblical perspective on healing as well that helps bridge the gap between the physical and spiritual connectiveness of healing. A significant portion of this episode is dedicated to the topic of parasite cleansing ie. what parasites are, how they can affect our health, and the importance of periodic cleansing. Listeners will gain insight into natural methods and strategies for parasite cleansing and maintaining a healthy gut microbiome. Whether you're someone looking to take charge of your health or simply curious about the world of holistic healing and parasite cleansing, this episode offers a wealth of knowledge, practical tips, and inspiration to help you on your journey towards optimal well-being. Tune in and embark on a transformative voyage to unlock the path to wellness with our holistic health practitioner. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thatswildpodcast/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thatswildpodcast/support
Some of us love it, some of us hate it! Deworming time can be a bit of a challenge, but join us to hear some tips and tricks on how to make it a little easier!
This week Nancy and Kate discuss a paper that investigated a herd of 18 mares that were housed on a pasture since 1979 without a deworming program. Nancy also relates the lecture information from a seminar she attended about deworming horses to combat parasite resistance. Reference and Link to Research Paper: Steuer, A.E., Anderson, H.P., Shepherd, T. et al. (2022). Parasite dynamics in untreated horses through one calendar year. Parasites Vectors 15, 50. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13071-022-05168-z Link to a Veterinary article describing the newest thoughts on deworming programs for adult horses: Deworming Programs- One Size Does Not Fit All. https://www.steinbeckpeninsulaequine.com/post/deworming-programs-one-size-does-not-fit-all --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nancy-mclean/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nancy-mclean/support
Season 5, Episode 2 / To Deworm or Not to DewormPermaculture PerspectiveEmploy Rotational Grazing methods to manage worm populationsAnimals should have enough forage for 5-7 days, roughlyAnimals enter when grass forages reach 8-10” and legume forages reach 10-12”Never allow animals to graze the forage below 4”. This slows forage regrowth and encourages parasite ingestion otherwiseA full rotation supplies 21-28 days before animals re-enter the original paddockPasture rest and sunlight exposure are essential for regrowth, and dropping larvae egg countsEmploy Co-Species Grazing methodsGoats and sheep share parasites. Those species do not share with horses, cows, and birdsDifferent species eat different forages and forage portions, ensuring all forage is evenly grazedBirds are essential–they break apart manure piles looking for worms, insects, larvae, etc.Effects of Dewormer on EcosystemDewormers are harmful to dung beetle populations which are an important part of ecosystemExcessive/unnecessary deworming builds resistance within animalsDeworming products can effect non-targeted worms once contact is made with the soil just as earthwormsALWAYS RUN FECAL COUNTS AT ANNUAL CHECK UPS! Learn Famacha scale for goats and sheep, interact with animals to detect any abnormalities, and walk your pastures to monitor forage heights and type!Medically, if you take a listen the "different" viewpoints line up. Husbandry and medicine go hand in hand when it comes to parasite control and prevention. Refugia is a confusing term that you may hear surrounding the topic of deworming and goats. Refugia essentially means (in this particular topic) the parasites that are in refuge from the drugs used to treat them. Similar to treating heavy shedders in a horse herd. Resistance in this case is the genetic ability of parasites to survive treatment with an antiparasitic drug that was generally effective against those parasites in the past.References:Prevent Parasites Through Grazing Management(Penn State Extension)https://extension.psu.edu/prevent-parasites-through-grazing-managementDewormer Resistance(Cornell)https://cals.cornell.edu/nys-4-h-animal-science-programs/livestock/goats/goat-educational-resources/dewormer-resistanceSocial// Instagram:Angela: @axeandroothomesteadMandi: @wildoakfarms*This is not professional veterinary advice, please always work with your trusted veterinarian.
Internal parasites (worms) can have serious negative impacts on the health and wellbeing of your horses. They can compete with the horse for any digested food or often feed off the horse itself. Most concerning is some internal parasites can cause internal organ damage as they migrate within the horse's body. This is why deworming your horse is so important. In this week's podcast, we highlight why deworming is so important and then how we deworm our horses today. Much has changed in the past decade or so, where now we do targeted deworming and explain it here. Another great podcast for any horse owner. You can learn more about these topics by visiting our expertise page HERE If you have any questions or concerns about your own horse, please contact us HERE This podcast was brought to you by Tribute Superior Equine Nutrition
*The U.S. cattle herd continues to shrink. *Congress may vote this week on a bill that would overturn the recent endangered species listing of the Lesser Prairie Chicken. *Exports of U.S. beef are down this year. *The hot dry summer across much of Texas has increased the chances of wildfires. *The lack of rainfall and triple digit temperatures are taking a toll on garden and landscape plants. *Deworming horses can be a challenge due to parasite resistance.*A deer in a breeding facility southwest of Corpus Christi has tested positive for Chronic Wasting Disease.
We share our worming protocols for horses, critter of the show is the sloth, in critter nutrition we focus on bringing home a new puppy and in coffee klatch we ask; what characteristics of your horse or dog or cat reflect a part of your own personality?Co-Hosts: Tigger Montague from BiostarUS and Pati Pierucci from Pierucci DressageAsk HedwigLearn more about Whole Food Supplements for your horse and dog's optimal health at Biostar USFollow Healthy Critters Radio on Facebook
We share our worming protocols for horses, critter of the show is the sloth, in critter nutrition we focus on bringing home a new puppy and in coffee klatch we ask; what characteristics of your horse or dog or cat reflect a part of your own personality?Co-Hosts: Tigger Montague from BiostarUS and Pati Pierucci from Pierucci DressageAsk HedwigLearn more about Whole Food Supplements for your horse and dog's optimal health at Biostar USFollow Healthy Critters Radio on Facebook
This week Dr. Murray Jelinski returns to the podcast for a 2nd week in a row, to discuss a completely different topic. He will summarize some of his recent research on the value of deworming yearling cattle in Western Canadian pastures. We discuss the basics of the life cycle of the internal roundworms of cattle and the impact they can have on productivity.00:00 - 00:45 Intro00:45 - 02:51 Why the interest in internal parasites?02:51 - 06:00 Types of internal parasites of cattle06:01 - 10:27 Life cycle of roundworms10:28 - 15:54 Difference in species of roundworms and changes in distribution of species15:55 - 17:50 How do the roundworms impact performance?17:51 - 22:05 Limitations of the fecal egg count test22:06 - 27:11 Factors that affect the level of parasite load27:12 - 34:15 Summary of clinical trial on yearling cattle in Saskatchewan34:16 - 35:50 Emergence of Haemonchus roundworms in Western Canada35:51 - 38:31 Risk factors for higher parasite loads38:32 - 44:23 Recommendations for when to decide if deworming is necessary44:24 - 45:00 Wrap up
Our first Called to CARE session for 2023 begins like a dinner conversation among friends. In this podcast, AfricaExchange.org co-founders and co-directors, Sam and Melody Harrell, share how their Baptist American-African lives led them to become global leaders in “integrated” sustainable development... “I am blown a-Way.” (Rev. Jimi Calhoun, co-host, legendary musician, author and pastor)Sam and Melody are saving lives and ending poverty with education and holistic, community care. Now celebrating their 25th year, AfricaExchange (AE) has built 14 “integrated child development” preschools in Kenya's most-isolated / least-resourced regions. AE's projects are providing and fostering nutrition, clean water, education, sanitation and infrastructure, jobs, job training, Creation care and restoration, and more, on an ongoing basis in these places to help these children and their communities defeat poverty. Meet. Notice. Exchange. Serve. AfricaExchange's model is rooted in the best of Christianity's and Africa's worldviews. As the children of Baptist missionaries in Africa, Sam and Melody's foundational insight is that CARING FOR OTHERS means: listening, noticing, and being empathetic before acting. AfricaExchange helps communities build upward-spiraling personal and collective assets which benefit the whole community and their local biosphere. AE is exemplar in their work. This podcast is worth multiple listenings for those interested in “learning the lessons that will propel us forward.” (Sam Harrell)#############About our guests • Melody Harrell, spiritual director, AfricaExchange.org • Sam Harrell, executive director, AfricaExchange.org • Rev. Jimi Calhoun, pastor, BridgingAustin.org, author/musician, JimiCalhoun.com • Rev. Julaine Calhoun, pastor, BridgingAustin.org • Chris Searles, director, BioIntegrity.net, exec. editor, AllCreation.org About this seriesIn this time of polarizations and extremes we seem to be going to our Media for answers, and yet our Media is not designed or intended to give us answers. Media is a business (not a healer). Looking honestly at today's shared social challenges, all indicators indicate it is Care through kinship, attention, gentleness, safety, honesty, support, process, nurturing, love, detail, nutrition, structure, generosity, time, etc. — that humans today need most to overcome our current complex, human-made crises. What can More CARE do for modern people? Our guests are asked to share about the effectiveness of greater care for all in the living Creation through greater empathy, mutuality, relationship, conversation, listening, hearing, seeing, connecting, processing, balancing, healing, and nurturing of ourselves, each other, Earth's biodiversity, and “the environment.” #############REFERENCESR.D. Laing#############PROGRAMI. 0:00 WELCOMEII. 2:00 INTRODUCTIONS III. 6:30 INVOCATION, Melody Harrell • “I love the concept of being called to care. It feels like an invitation and it feels like something I already have tools and capacity-for." • RD Lang reading.12:00 Sam, Real-life story • “We were building an integrated child development center on the side of a mountain in Northwest Kenya…”18:30 Rev. Calhoun • “…Now I go out of my way to make sure they know I'm aware of them and they matter and they count.”IV. 23:00 METHODOLOGY24:30 Values • S- “Melody and I are the product of missionary parents” • M- “God had already been there… He or She didn't have to be brought from America” • S- “The example of Jesus (is) our motivating factor, but that does not mean you come into an empty slate. People already have an experience of God”30:30 Kutana • “KUTANA means to meet and exchange profound mutuality... so that we can love according to the way that love should be” • “You won't discover what a need is, unless you have dialogue and interaction… And that takes time and context and interaction and mutuality." • Melody, “The beautiful practice of story-telling takes time and being close and the space for that to happen.”39:30 Services • “We started with street children in Nairobi.” • “I discovered there were a ton of children who didn't have their needs met in the rural areas" • Their Integrated model: listen to the community, address food, water, health, school/center construction in participatory way. • CHANGE FOR CHILDREN (program): Clean water, Nutrition, Immunity, Malaria prevention, Deworming ($1 per child), Teacher training, Help community maintain school48:30 Connections • Sam, “The incarnation is Kutana. It's not God from afar, it's God coming close. It's conversation and hands and flesh. Our model is Jesus” • Rev. Calhoun, "What's happening globally does have an affect on you” • S, African philosophy is based on this one thing, UBUNTU, “I am because we are.” “I don't have an existence on my own, I need others.” • S, UJAAMA: “Without each other the whole thing collapses.” • Rev. Julian Calhoun, “I think it's important to remind us that we do need each other."V. 58:00 CARE AS IDENTITY • 58:45 Melody, “A very natural response to our upbringing in that place, our love for the place and for the people, and our calling as people of Faith to love and care for others” • 1:02:00 Sam, “We came about it naturally, we had good examples in our parents... and liminal spaces and events have led me to be conformed after the way of Christ, for the good of humanity… • “If we can be active in trying to engage the world, but also introspective enough to actually see what it is that we're doing and listen for direction, then some wonderful things can happen. That's all I'm looking for” • 1:06:30 Rev. Jimi Calhoun, “I want to address the missionary aspect — Julaine and I have led and received teams that come to paint buildings, pass out tracks, etc. — some kind of doing and very little being. What I'm hearing tonight, and what the importance of what I understand AfricaExchange to be, is the latter. They're asking people to come and take part and BE with the people. I can unequivocally say that's the most important thing we can do as Westerners” • 1:11:15 Melody, “The work we do is made possible by incredible partners...and I can almost see God making these connections where maybe some resources can cross our borders” • 1:12:45 Sam, “We have a lot of volunteers, amazing people who teach us every day.” TREES FOR LIFE (program) • “In some of our work we try to help communities protect their environment, without trees and sufficient soil erosion protectant when their floods come it wipes them out • “Every four-year-old plants 3 trees a year, and their parents get paid $1 if that tree survives a year… from that comes clean water and soil health and all the rest of it, so, Trees for Life is integrated into our whole.NATURE AS TEACHER • “Whenever Nature teaches me something I take it as from God.” • Intermittent disturbanceON MIGRATION • “”No one leaves home, unless home is the mouth of a shark.” It's not like people are trying to come and take your stuff. People can't live where they are. Why don't we go and see what's happening to cause this? • “I gotta care for my neighbor and that's basic to our Faith. Love of God, love of self, and love of neighbor are inextricable, and if we're following the path of Jesus - boy, we better be caring for our neighbor.”VI. 1:19:15 CLOSING THOUGHTS • 1:20:30 Melody, “Most of the good, the real, deep, good work, goes on under the radar.” • 1:22:45 Sam, “I've come to realize, through the help of many wise-people, we really are operating on the basis of a myth of disconnection… A non-dual way of living, one that is about how things are unified in God, is my inspiration.” • “What we're trying to help people who are marginalized have a voice so they can be part of the conversation, so we realize that we're all in this together.” • 1:25:30 Rev. Calhoun, “To keep us mindful of our place in all of this: in my view, it's something we have to give thought-to. It won't come naturally. It won't come from a book. You have to sit around and think who am I, where am I, why am I… why are we? And then reach the conclusion, what part do I have to play? And the answer is, you do have a part of play. Everyone has a part to play.”1:26:30 Chris Searles, Thank you everybody! #################################Thanks for listening. Produced, etc. by Chris Searles.Presented by AllCreation.org and BioIntegrity.net. Visit AllCreation.org/Care for more content.
Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: GiveWell's updated estimate of deworming and decay, published by GiveWell on April 3, 2023 on The Effective Altruism Forum. Author: Alex Cohen, GiveWell Senior Researcher This document describes the rationale for the decay adjustment in our deworming cost-effectiveness analysis. We have incorporated this adjustment thanks to criticism from the Happier Lives Institute. In a nutshell The main piece of evidence we use for the long-term effects of deworming is an RCT in Kenya with follow-ups at ~10 years (KLPS-2), ~15 years (KLPS-3) and ~20 years (KLPS-4) after children received deworming treatment. While these surveys show decline in effect on ln earnings and consumption over time, we have typically viewed the different estimates across surveys as noisy estimates of the same effect and assumed the effects of deworming are constant throughout a person's working life. We now think we should account for some decay in benefits over time. We incorporate this decay by making the following key assumptions: We put 50% weight on the interpretation that the different estimates over time are capturing true differences in effect size. While the data point to an estimate of decline, the confidence intervals are wide and there are differences in how data were collected over time, which make us reluctant to put full weight on KLPS 2-4 capturing true decay over time. We set a prior that the effects are constant over time. This is based on a shallow literature review of studies of interventions during childhood where researchers reported at least two follow-ups on income during adulthood. We find a similar number of studies finding a decline in effect as an increase in effect over time. We update from that prior at each time period (10-years, 15-years, and 20-years), using the informal Bayesian adjustment approach we've used previously. We then extrapolate effects through the rest of the individual's working life based on the measured decline from 10-year to 20-year follow-up. Our best guess is that we should apply a -10% adjustment due to the possibility of decay in effects over time. While the decline in effects in later years leads to lower cost-effectiveness, this is partially counterbalanced by higher estimated effects in earlier years and by our putting only 50% weight on the interpretation that declines in measured effects across follow-ups reflects a true decline in effect over time. We have several uncertainties about this analysis: This decay adjustment builds on top of our current Bayesian approach for estimating the effect of deworming. As a result, it's subject to the same limitations of that approach. It's possible that in the future we should overhaul our approach, which could lead to meaningful differences in how we incorporate decay. The model is sensitive to our prior on whether effects should decay or not, and our current prior is based on a shallow literature review. If we expected effects to decay, we would include a stricter adjustment because we would (i) be updating from a prior where decay was already occurring and (ii) put more weight on the decay interpretation. We could potentially refine this estimate with a more thorough review of the literature and additional data analysis. The weight we put on whether these are noisy estimates of the same effect or different effects over time is based on a qualitative and highly subjective assessment. Putting higher weight on the surveys capturing different effects over time, for example, would lead to a stronger discount. What we did previously The main piece of evidence we use for the long-term effects of deworming is an RCT in Kenya that measures effects on income at ~10 years (KLPS-2), ~15 years (KLPS-3) and ~20 years (KLPS-4) after children receive deworming treatment.[1] Our typical approach has been to pool effects...
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Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: A can of worms: the non-significant effect of deworming on happiness in the KLPS, published by Samuel Dupret on December 21, 2022 on The Effective Altruism Forum. Summary Mass deworming, where many people are provided drugs to treat parasitic worms, has long been considered a highly cost-effective intervention to improve lives in low-income countries. GiveWell directed over $163 million to deworming charities since 2010. Nevertheless, there are long-running debates about its impact and cost-effectiveness. In this report, we summarise the debate about the efficacy of deworming, present the first analysis of deworming in terms of subjective wellbeing (SWB), and compare the cost-effectiveness of deworming to StrongMinds (our current top recommended charity). Analysing SWB data from the Kenyan Life Panel Survey (KLPS; Hamory et al., 2021), we find that deworming has a small, statistically non-significant effect on long-term happiness that seems (surprisingly) to become negative over time (see Figure 1). We conclude that the effect of deworming in the KLPS is either non-existent or too small to estimate with certainty. Typically, an academic analysis could stop here and not recommend deworming. However, the non-significant effects of deworming could be cost-effective in practice because it is extremely cheap to deliver. Because the effect of deworming is small and becomes negative over time, our best guess finds that the overall cost-effectiveness of deworming is negative. Even under more generous assumptions (but still plausible according to this data), deworming is less cost-effective than StrongMinds. Therefore, we do not recommend any deworming charities at this time. To overturn this conclusion, proponents of deworming would either need to (1) appeal to different SWB data (we're not aware of any) or (2) appeal to a non-SWB method of comparison which concludes that deworming is more cost-effective than StrongMinds. Figure 1: Differences in happiness between treatment and control groups over time 1. Background and literature In this section, we present the motivation for this analysis, the work by GiveWell that preceded this, and the broader literature on deworming. We then present the details and context of the dataset we use for this analysis – the Kenyan Life Panel Survey (KLPS). 1.1 Our motivation for this analysis The Happier Lives Institute evaluates charities and interventions in terms of subjective wellbeing (SWB) - how people think and feel about their lives. We believe that wellbeing is what ultimately matters and we take self-reports of SWB to be the best indicator of how much good an intervention does. If deworming improves people's lives, those treated for deworming should report greater SWB than those who aren't. SWB should capture and integrate the overall benefits from all of the instrumental goods provided by an intervention. For example, if deworming makes people richer, and this makes them happier, they will report higher SWB (the same is true for improvements to health or education). Although we are not the first to use SWB as an outcome for decision-making (e.g., UK Treasury, Frijters et al., 2020, Birkjaer et al., 2020, Layard & Oparina, 2021), we are the first to use it to compare the impact of charities. See McGuire et al. (2022b) for more detail about why we prefer the SWB approach to evaluate charities. To determine whether the SWB approach changes which interventions we find the most cost-effective, we have been re-evaluating the charity recommendations of GiveWell (a prominent charity evaluator that recommends charities based on their mortality and economic impacts). For a review of our recent research, see this post. We present our findings in wellbeing-adjusted years (WELLBYs), where 1 WELLBY is the equivalent of a 1-point change on a 0-10...
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Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: GiveWell Misuses Discount Rates, published by Oscar Delaney on October 27, 2022 on The Effective Altruism Forum. Summary GiveWell currently uses a time discount rate of 4% for all their cost-effectiveness analyses (CEAs). I argue that it is a mathematical mistake to pick any single best guess value to use for the CEAs. Instead, GiveWell should use a probability distribution over possible discount rates. This is not just an aesthetic judgement for mathematical puritans; it materially changes the CEAs, notably by making all the deworming interventions more attractive relative to other interventions. This is because deworming interventions rely on multi-decadal effects, and so a lower discount rate would make them much more valuable. Epistemic Status On the object level, I cannot think of any reasons to justify GiveWell's current modelling choice over my proposal. However, I still doubt my conclusion because on the meta level it seems like an obvious thing that would be surprising if no one at GiveWell had ever thought of doing, which is evidence I am missing something important. Main GiveWell's CEAs are an impressive attempt to model many different factors in assessing the near-term impacts of various interventions.[1] I will ignore all of this complexity. For my purposes, it is sufficient to note that the CEA for most interventions is well characterised by decomposing impact into several constituents, and multiplying these numbers together. Consider Helen Keller International's Vitamin A Supplementation program: V=M×R×1C [2] where: V is cost-effectiveness [deaths/dollar], M is baseline mortality [deaths/year/child], R is mortality reduction [%], and C is treatment cost [dollars/child/year] Obviously, all of these terms are uncertain. Treatment costs we can estimate quite accurately, but there may be fluctuations in the price of labour or materials needed in the distribution. Mortality data is generally good, but some deaths may not be reported, and mortality rates will change over time. The mortality reduction is based on a solid-seeming meta-analysis of RCTs, but things change over time, and circumstances differ between the trial and intervention locations. GiveWell's model makes a subtle mathematical assumption, namely that the expectation of the product of these three random variables is equal to the product of their expectations: E[V]=E[M×R×1C]=E[M]×E[R]×E[1C] This is not, in general, true.[3] However, if the three random variables are independent, it is true. I cannot think of any plausible ways in which these three random variables correlate. Surely learning that the price of vitamin A tablets just doubled (C) does not affect how effective they are (R) or change the baseline of how many kids die (M). Thus, while GiveWell's method is mathematically unsound, it gives the correct answer in this case. It could well be that GiveWell has considered this, and decided not to explain this in their CEAs because it doesn't change the answer. I think this would be a mistake in communication, but otherwise benign. The one place where I believe this mathematical mistake translates into an incorrect answer is in the use of discount rates. From GiveWell's explanatory document: “The discount rate's primary effect in the cost-effectiveness analyses of our top charities is to represent how much we discount increases in consumption resulting from the long run effects of improved child health for our malaria, deworming and vitamin A charities (which we call "developmental effects"). It also affects the longer-run benefits from cash transfers. We don't discount mortality benefits in our cost-effectiveness analyses.” This figure shows the cost-effectiveness of all the charities in the CEA spreadsheet, when varying the discount rate.[4] Deworming interventions, shown in dashed lines, v...
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Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Economic losers: SoGive's review of deworming, and why we're less positive than GiveWell, published by SoGive on August 8, 2022 on The Effective Altruism Forum. Primary author: Lucas Lewit-Mendes Secondary authors: Sanjay Joshi, Isobel Phillips, Matt Sharp tl;dr: We (SoGive) estimate that mass deworming is 6-10x more cost-effective than GiveDirectly's cash transfers. This is less cost-effective than GiveWell's estimate of 12-19x, but remains close to, albeit slightly below, their current 10x funding bar. The discrepancy is primarily driven by our conclusion that gains in adult earnings for some dewormed children may be at the expense of other workers (i.e. "economic losers"). Red-Teaming GiveWell's Recommendation of Mass Deworming We (SoGive) have been conducting red-teaming of some of GiveWell's recommended top charities, starting with mass deworming programmes. Much has been written on deworming, from a landmark trial in Kenya, to the infamous "worm wars", to an apparently encouraging 20-year follow-up study. GiveWell moved around $40 million to support mass deworming programmes in the year to June 2022. After ~200 hours of research, we hope to shed some light on some relatively unexplored aspects of the mass deworming conversation. Our major update is that we now expect deworming to have less chance of huge economic impact, because competition between workers in the labour market may result in "economic losers". Alongside other small updates, this reduces cost-effectiveness to 6-10x GiveDirectly's cash transfers (varying by charity), down from GiveWell's estimate of 12-19x. We would like to express our gratitude to GiveWell for their correspondence throughout the research process. This post will highlight our key findings from our full intervention report, covering the following topics: Table 1 #SectionOne-sentence summaryIntroductory content1Statistical significanceThe notably large effects on earnings and consumption from the Busia experiment are not statistically significant, but GiveWell sufficiently accounts for this uncertainty. 2Black box problemThe causal mechanism between deworming and long-run earnings gains is a "black box". SoGive differs from GiveWell on economic losers3Economic losersGains in adult earnings for some dewormed children may be at the expense of other workers (i.e. economic losers). SoGive believes it is important to give careful consideration to health effects4Direct health effectsThe direct health effects of mass deworming appear to be small on average. 5ComorbiditiesHealth effects are especially uncertain in the presence of comorbidities. 6Drug resistanceGiveWell accounts for the possibility that drug resistance could develop, but we are somewhat more pessimistic about this risk. Despite the significant amount of effort already expended, our work on deworming is not complete. We remain excited to continue exploring some of the other areas that we outline towards the end of this post, including unprogrammed deworming (i.e. how much deworming would happen anyway without mass deworming programmes), the implications of climate change for deworming, and more on the health aspects of deworming. Background on Mass Deworming GiveWell-recommended mass deworming programmes currently operate in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, treating children with two types of parasitic worm infections - schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted helminthiasis (STH). The scale of infections is enormous. Around 200 million people have schistosomiasis, while around 1.5 billion have STH. The health effects of worm infections can be severe in rare cases, including organ damage, intestinal inflammation, intestinal obstruction, and impairment of nutrient intake. But since worm infections often coexist with other morbidities, precise data on how often worm infections cau...
Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: The Case for Funding New Long-Term Randomized Controlled Trials of Deworming, published by MHR on August 4, 2022 on The Effective Altruism Forum. Summary Despite significant uncertainty in the cost-effectiveness of mass deworming, GiveWell has directed over a hundred million dollars in donations to deworming initiatives since 2011. Almost all the data underlying GiveWell's cost-effectiveness estimate comes from a single 1998 randomized trial of deworming in 75 Kenyan schools. Errors in GiveWell's estimate of cost-effectiveness (in either direction) could be driving an impactful misallocation of funding in the global health and development space, reducing the total welfare created by Effective Altruism (EA)-linked donations. A randomized controlled trial replicating the 1998 Kenya deworming trial could provide a substantial improvement in the accuracy of cost-effectiveness estimates, with a simplified model indicating the expected value of such a trial is in the millions of dollars per year. Therefore, EA-aligned donors may have made an error by not performing replication studies on the long-run economic impact of deworming and should prioritize running them in the future. More generally, this finding suggests that EA organizations may be undervaluing the information that could be gained from running experiments to replicate existing published results. Introduction Chronic parasitic infections are common in many regions of the world, including sub-Saharan Africa and parts of East Asia. Two common types of parasitic disease are schistosomiasis, which is transmitted by contaminated water, and the soil-transmitted helminth infections (STHs) trichuriasis, ascariasis, and hookworm. Mass deworming is the process of treating these diseases in areas of high prevalence by administering antiparasitic medications to large groups of people without first testing each individual for infection. The antiparasitic medications involved, praziquantel for schistosomiasis and albendazole for STHs, are cheap, have relatively few side effects, and are considered safe to administer on a large scale. There is strong evidence that deworming campaigns reduce the prevalence of parasitic disease, as well as weaker evidence that deworming campaigns improve broader life outcomes. GiveWell has included charities working on deworming in its top charities list for over a decade, with the SCI Foundation (formerly the Schistosomiasis Control Initiative) and Evidence Action's Deworm the World Initiative being the top recipients of GiveWell-directed deworming donations. As of 2020, GiveWell has directed $163 million to charities working on deworming, with this funding coming from individual donors giving to deworming organizations based on GiveWell's recommendation, GiveWell funding deworming organizations directly via its Maximum Impact Fund, and Open Philanthropy donating to deworming organizations based on GiveWell's research. GiveWell's recommendation of deworming-focused charities is based almost entirely on the limited evidence linking deworming to long-term economic benefits, particularly increases in income and consumption. Regarding impacts on health, the GiveWell brief on deworming states “evidence for the impact of deworming on short-term general health is thin. We would guess that deworming has small impacts on weight, but the evidence for its impact on other health outcomes is weak.” So-called “supplemental factors” other than the effect on income change GiveWell's overall cost-effectiveness estimate for Deworm the World by 7%. GiveWell's estimate of the long-term economic benefit produced by deworming comes from “Twenty-Year Economic Impacts of Deworming” (2021), by Joan Hamory, Edward Miguel, Michael Walker, Michael Kremer, and Sarah Baird. This paper is a 20-year follow-up to “Worms: Ident...
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Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Deworming and decay: replicating GiveWell's cost-effectiveness analysis, published by JoelMcGuire on July 25, 2022 on The Effective Altruism Forum. Joel McGuire, Samuel Dupret and Michael Plant Summary At the Happier Lives Institute, we have been replicating GiveWell's cost-effectiveness analysis of deworming. GiveWell's model assumes that the economic benefits of deworming last for 40 years with no decline over time. We noticed that this assumption conflicts with the data from the main deworming study that GiveWell uses (Hamory et al., 2021). When we looked at the effects over time, we found that the economic benefits decay by around 12% each year. Taking this decay into account shrinks the total economic benefit by 60% compared to GiveWell's model. This would reduce the cost-effectiveness of nearly all their recommended deworming charities below their 10x bar for funding. For more details about our calculations, the data used, the choice of the decay model, and its implications for the GiveWell deworming charities, see our external appendix. We raised this issue with GiveWell. They said that they are aware that the data suggests a decay over time, but they think their model is more appropriate; they noted that they haven't explained and defended this choice publicly. In conversation, they gave two reasons for their approach. First, they have strong prior beliefs about the effects over time. Second, they have already applied a conservative discount to deworming. In this post, we provide the context for our analysis and why we estimate a decay of economic benefits. We then attempt to reconstruct GiveWell's reasons and explain why we find these reasons unconvincing. Finally, we provide four recommendations to improve the clarity and transparency of GiveWell's cost-effectiveness analyses. These are to (1) publicly explain and defend their assumptions about the effect of deworming over time; (2) explain their cost-effectiveness analyses in writing; (3) illustrate the sensitivity of their results to key parameters; (4) make it clear when an estimate is subjective or evidence-based. 1. How we discovered the discrepancy between the data and GiveWell's model The Happier Lives Institute is searching for the most cost-effective ways to increase happiness. We have started this major project by assessing GiveWell's top interventions and charities in terms of ‘subjective wellbeing' (e.g. self-reported happiness and life satisfaction). So far, we have conducted cost-effective analyses (CEAs) of cash transfers and psychotherapy. Now, we are focusing our attention on understanding and replicating GiveWell's CEA of deworming. Later this year, we will publish a report comparing deworming to cash transfers and psychotherapy in terms of its effects on subjective wellbeing. In this report, however, we are solely concerned with understanding the economic benefits of deworming. Mass deworming is a large drug intervention targeting chronic parasitic infections such as schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted helminthiasis (GiveWell, 2018; WHO, 2006, 2011). These infections can cause a range of urinary, intestinal, nutritional, cognitive and developmental problems. The parasites are transmitted through soil and water because of a lack of proper sanitation. The drugs are cheap and unlikely to cause side effects so they are provided to individuals without testing for infection (which would otherwise be expensive; Hamory et al., 2021). GiveWell has reviewed deworming multiple times (2016, 2017, 2018). Mass deworming is successful in reducing worm and infection levels, but GiveWell (2018) concluded that the main impact of deworming is the potential for preventing adverse effects on children's development - and thereby long-term consequences - rather than the effects on preventing short-term health ...
Deworming, is a topic that brings about a lot of questions and confusion. Should we still be deworming every 6-8 weeks? Why are our dewormers not nearly as effective? What happens if we go a year without deworming? We answer all these questions and more in todays episode all about the history of deworming and the practices that have lead us to where we are today! FARMVET! They have been incredibly gracious in partnering with us for this episode and it's still a little surreal! If you want to buy the same fecal tests we used or purchase dewormer, check out their website and use our promo code to get a discount! https://www.farmvet.com Promo Code: InTheBarn Follow along with us on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/inthebarn.pod/ If you have any questions, comments or concerns let us know inthebarnpod@gmail.com Resources https://aaep.org/sites/default/files/Guidelines/AAEPParasiteControlGuidelines_0.pdf https://aaep.org/sites/default/files/2021-03/Internal_Parasite_Guidelines.pdf https://equinewellnessmagazine.com/equine-parasite-control/ https://avmajournals.avma.org/view/journals/javma/245/8/javma.245.8.944.xml https://vet-advantage.com/vet_advantage/effective-equine-parasite-control/ https://parasitesandvectors.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13071-022-05168-z https://www.scstatehouse.gov/CommitteeInfo/SenateMedicalAffairsCommittee/horse-dewormer-ivermectin-pdf.pdf https://www.cabdirect.org/cabdirect/abstract/19630800367 https://d1wqtxts1xzle7.cloudfront.net/46130273 https://www.vetres.org/articles/vetres/pdf/2002/05/07.pdf Identification_of_foals_infected_with_Pa20151126-8981-kf96r2-with-cover-page-v2.pdf https://www.equimaxhorse.com/images/Craig-2007-Evidence-of-Ivermectin-Resistance-by-Parascaris-equorum-1.pdf https://aaep.org/sites/default/files/issues/eve-20-10-Schumacher_EVE_20-10.pdf (Once again, so many more resources just can't fit them in the box. Please reach out and ask for them!)
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If someone said a global health and development programme was sustainable, participatory, and holistic, you'd have to guess that they were saying something positive. But according to today's guest Karen Levy - deworming pioneer and veteran of Innovations for Poverty Action, Evidence Action, and Y Combinator - each of those three concepts has become so fashionable that they're at risk of being seriously overrated and applied where they don't belong. Links to learn more, summary and full transcript. Such concepts might even cause harm - trying to make a project embody all three is as likely to ruin it as help it flourish. First, what do people mean by 'sustainability'? Usually they mean something like the programme will eventually be able to continue without needing further financial support from the donor. But how is that possible? Governments, nonprofits, and aid agencies aim to provide health services, education, infrastructure, financial services, and so on - and all of these require ongoing funding to pay for materials and staff to keep them running. Given that someone needs to keep paying, Karen tells us that in practice, 'sustainability' is usually a euphemism for the programme at some point being passed on to someone else to fund - usually the national government. And while that can be fine, the national government of Kenya only spends $400 per person to provide each and every government service - just 2% of what the US spends on each resident. Incredibly tight budgets like that are typical of low-income countries. 'Participatory' also sounds nice, and inasmuch as it means leaders are accountable to the people they're trying to help, it probably is. But Karen tells us that in the field, 'participatory' usually means that recipients are expected to be involved in planning and delivering services themselves. While that might be suitable in some situations, it's hardly something people in rich countries always want for themselves. Ideally we want government healthcare and education to be high quality without us having to attend meetings to keep it on track - and people in poor countries have as many or more pressures on their time. While accountability is desirable, an expectation of participation can be as much a burden as a blessing. Finally, making a programme 'holistic' could be smart, but as Karen lays out, it also has some major downsides. For one, it means you're doing lots of things at once, which makes it hard to tell which parts of the project are making the biggest difference relative to their cost. For another, when you have a lot of goals at once, it's hard to tell whether you're making progress, or really put your mind to focusing on making one thing go extremely well. And finally, holistic programmes can be impractically expensive - Karen tells the story of a wonderful 'holistic school health' programme that, if continued, was going to cost 3.5 times the entire school's budget. In today's in-depth conversation, Karen Levy and I chat about the above, as well as: * Why it pays to figure out how you'll interpret the results of an experiment ahead of time * The trouble with misaligned incentives within the development industry * Projects that don't deliver value for money and should be scaled down * How Karen accident
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Debunking Deworming with Dr, Martin NielsenIs your deworming program working? Dr. Martin Nielsen, Associate Professor at the University of Kentucky, who specializes in parasitology, teaches us about problems with current deworming programs, management of parasite resistance, the value of testing, and the research that is ongoing to help combat the problem.https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_pDqB6sRvi1XJ8AHUapPCw
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Are universities a cult? Do charitable interventions like de-worming work? How much should we trust the conclusion of well-respected charity evaluators like GiveWell?Uri is the publisher of The Browser and The Listener, the world's favourite curation newsletters, and the author of Thinking Statistically and The Business of Big Data. Uri can be found at uribram.com or uri@uribram.com.As we mention in the audio, this episode includes a critique of Givewell. Givewell were kind enough to listen to our recording and send us a reply. Here's their reply:We're excited to see this level of detailed engagement with our research. As Uri and Spencer note, one of the key reasons we share the full analysis behind our recommendations is precisely this: inviting fresh perspectives and debate on the conclusions we reach.We operate in an expected value framework when recommending top charities. We recommend deworming programs because of the possibility that deworming may have a large impact on long-term economic well-being. At less than $1 per treatment, we think it's a pretty good bet. We've discussed our views publicly over the years, such as in our blog post titled "Deworming might have huge impact, but might have close to zero impact."The case for deworming's long-term benefits does rely on a relatively small number of studies. And the mechanisms by which it has long-term impact are unclear. But when we account for these uncertainties in our impact estimates, it still remains promising.We've also supported research to better understand the impacts of deworming. We funded part of a study that measured the economic welfare of children who received deworming treatments 20 years later. This work was recently published, and at a high level, seems to support the story of deworming's long-term effects.Thanks again for discussing this topic—it's an important and thorny one!Givewell also mentioned some corrections to some of the claims made in the episode. They said:[We] noticed some comments outside of the deworming conversation that didn't reflect our views and flagged a few of the more important ones below.In addition to the groups you listed, our current list of top charities includes Malaria Consortium's seasonal malaria chemoprevention program and Helen Keller International's vitamin A supplementation program. The full list is here: https://www.givewell.org/charities/top-charities.The two outcomes we recommend our current list of top charities for are averting deaths (not improving nutrition) and increasing incomes/consumption. We are open to considering additional outcomes in the future.Uri said the following in regards to cash transfers: "I might be wrong but I think GiveWell doesn't count—if you took the money and spent it on a one-off way that didn't increase your long-term wealth or income—then GiveWell wouldn't count that." This is not accurate. We model short-term as well as longer-term benefits to cash transfers. This is reflected in our cost-effectiveness model and discussed in this blog post.[Read more]
Are universities a cult? Do charitable interventions like de-worming work? How much should we trust the conclusion of well-respected charity evaluators like GiveWell?Uri is the publisher of The Browser and The Listener, the world's favourite curation newsletters, and the author of Thinking Statistically and The Business of Big Data. Uri can be found at uribram.com or uri@uribram.com.As we mention in the audio, this episode includes a critique of Givewell. Givewell were kind enough to listen to our recording and send us a reply. Here's their reply:We're excited to see this level of detailed engagement with our research. As Uri and Spencer note, one of the key reasons we share the full analysis behind our recommendations is precisely this: inviting fresh perspectives and debate on the conclusions we reach.We operate in an expected value framework when recommending top charities. We recommend deworming programs because of the possibility that deworming may have a large impact on long-term economic well-being. At less than $1 per treatment, we think it's a pretty good bet. We've discussed our views publicly over the years, such as in our blog post titled "Deworming might have huge impact, but might have close to zero impact."The case for deworming's long-term benefits does rely on a relatively small number of studies. And the mechanisms by which it has long-term impact are unclear. But when we account for these uncertainties in our impact estimates, it still remains promising.We've also supported research to better understand the impacts of deworming. We funded part of a study that measured the economic welfare of children who received deworming treatments 20 years later. This work was recently published, and at a high level, seems to support the story of deworming's long-term effects.Thanks again for discussing this topic—it's an important and thorny one!Givewell also mentioned some corrections to some of the claims made in the episode. They said:[We] noticed some comments outside of the deworming conversation that didn't reflect our views and flagged a few of the more important ones below.In addition to the groups you listed, our current list of top charities includes Malaria Consortium's seasonal malaria chemoprevention program and Helen Keller International's vitamin A supplementation program. The full list is here: https://www.givewell.org/charities/top-charities.The two outcomes we recommend our current list of top charities for are averting deaths (not improving nutrition) and increasing incomes/consumption. We are open to considering additional outcomes in the future.Uri said the following in regards to cash transfers: "I might be wrong but I think GiveWell doesn't count—if you took the money and spent it on a one-off way that didn't increase your long-term wealth or income—then GiveWell wouldn't count that." This is not accurate. We model short-term as well as longer-term benefits to cash transfers. This is reflected in our cost-effectiveness model and discussed in this blog post.
In preparation for the main spring planting season, I wanted to release this interview with resources on dog safety. Of course this year with the pandemic a lot has changed, but regardless most of what we cover is still relevant for having dogs on and off the block tree planting! Here is Céline's post on KKR from yesterday for ALL planters with dogs this season: For planters with dogs, here is a fairly exhaustive list of items to add to your first aid + emergency preparedness kits. We have all been warned to come to camp prepared for everything we will need for the duration of our contracts. Please think about what your animal may need in the event of an emergency while you're in the bush! -Veterinary-prescribed parasiticide for fleas/ticks/heartworm (such as Bravecto, Revolution, Nexguard Spectra etc.) -Deworming (such as Drontal, Strongid etc.) -Any prescription medication or pain killers (such as Metacam, Rheumocam, Meloxicam, Gabapentin etc.) -Probiotic (such as Fortiflora) -Benadryl *XYLITOL-FREE! (2mg per kg of body weight every 8 hours as necessary) -Gravol (4-8mg per kg of body weight every 12 hours as necessary) -Pepsid (0.11-0.22mg per kg of body weight) -Laxatives (such as Laxaday or Miralax, up to 1⁄4 teaspoon daily) -alcohol, hydrogen peroxide (0.22-0.45mL per kg of body weight to induce vomiting) -Health supplements (such as Omega 3's, CBD etc) -Manuka honey -polysporin -saline tears -booties for burnt/ripped paw pads -brush, flea comb, tick key, tweezers -vet wrap, bandage tape, burn pads, gauze wrap, gauze pads, cotton balls, moist pads, non-adherent padding -sanitizing scrub, epsom salts, chlorhex soap -q-tips -thermometer + lube -tongue depressors -25G needle, syringe cap, sterile syringes -urgent care canned food -high viz collar, extra leashes, collars, muzzle, carabiner, seat belt attachment, properly-fitted harness -toys, poop bags -portable kibble bag -cauterizing sticks or flour to stop minor bleeding and ripped nails -scissors, gloves, nail clippers -identification: microchipping/tattoo/provincial or municipal registration -food for the duration of the contract, towel, cone, food and water bowls Céline Rytz is a planter, foreman and Joint OH+S Committee member with Brinkman Reforestation. She earned a pre-veterinary animal science Bachelors of Science in 2015 and has worked in several veterinary clinics as a veterinarian's assistant since. She strives to educate and support dog owners in forestry workplaces and remote communities throughout Canada. Céline constructed a project last spring for Brinkman's dog owners, specifically safety protocols while living in bush camp. I spent a fair amount of time researching online for any sort of comprehensive safety manual for dogs owners in the backcountry - whether for employment or leisure - and found very little information that was legitimate and complete. A version of her work was shared at the WFCA annual conference this year in Victoria, BC during the "Dogs in Forestry Workplace" session. Through nearly a decade of planting, she has witnessed numerous emergencies involving dogs in the bush- dog fights, musculoskeletal injuries, marijuana ingestion, insect sting anaphylaxis, hit-by-car, heat stroke/hypothermia, etc. etc. etc... Given most planting camps are a lengthy distance from any veterinary clinic, educating yourself on proper first aid treatment may reduce an animal's suffering and even save its life. LINKS KKR post with Dog Safety PDF: https://www.facebook.com/groups/58909687260/permalink/10157246910172261/ Email: bark@gmail.com
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