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| 2007 || || Expansion || SCI program starts in Burundi.<ref name="OUR REACH">{{cite web |title=OUR REACH |url=https://www.schistosomiasiscontrolinitiative.org/our-reach |website=schistosomiasiscontrolinitiative.org |accessdate=12 March 2019}}</ref> || {{w|Burundi}}
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| 2008 || || Organization || The Schistosomiasis Consortium for Operational Research and Evaluation (SCORE) is established to answer strategic questions about schistosomiasis control.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Ezeamama |first1=Amara E. |last2=He |first2=Chun-La |last3=Shen |first3=Ye |last4=Yin |first4=Xiao-Ping |last5=Binder |first5=Sue C. |last6=CampbellJr. |first6=Carl H. |last7=Rathbun |first7=Stephen |last8=Whalen |first8=Christopher C. |last9=N’Goran |first9=Eliézer K. |last10=Utzinger |first10=Jürg |last11=Olsen |first11=Annette |last12=Magnussen |first12=Pascal |last13=Kinung’hi |first13=Safari |last14=Fenwick |first14=Alan |last15=Phillips |first15=Anna |last16=Ferro |first16=Josefo |last17=Karanja |first17=Diana M. S. |last18=Mwinzi |first18=Pauline N. M. |last19=Montgomery |first19=Susan |last20=Secor |first20=W. Evan |last21=Hamidou |first21=Amina |last22=Garba |first22=Amadou |last23=King |first23=Charles H. |last24=Colley |first24=Daniel G. |title=Gaining and sustaining schistosomiasis control: study protocol and baseline data prior to different treatment strategies in five African countries |doi=10.1186/s12879-016-1575-2 |url=https://bmcinfectdis.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12879-016-1575-2}}</ref> ||
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| 2009 || || Review || GiveWell begins reviewing SCI.<ref name="Schistosomiasis Control Initiative - November 2011 Review"/> ||
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| 2010 || || Expansion || SCI begins working in Côte d'Ivoire.<ref name="Schistosomiasis Control Initiative: Supplementary Information">{{cite web |title=Schistosomiasis Control Initiative: Supplementary Information |url=https://www.givewell.org/charities/schistosomiasis-control-initiative/supplementary-information |website=givewell.org |accessdate=11 March 2019}}</ref> || {{w|Côte d'Ivoire}}
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| 2010 || || Funding || SCI receives £10.5 million (plus separate funding for drugs) from the British {{w|Department for International Development}} for treating schistosomiasis and {{w|soil-transmitted helminthiasis}} in eight countries over five years.<ref name="Schistosomiasis Control Initiative: Supplementary Information"/> ||
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| 2010 || October || Funding || SCI receives £10.5 million (plus separate funding for drugs) from the British {{w|Department for International Development}} for treating schistosomiasis and {{w|soil-transmitted helminthiasis}} in eight countries over five years.<ref>{{cite web |title=Imperial initiative to protect children from tropical disease awarded £25m government backing |url=http://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/93621/imperial-initiative-protect-children-from-tropical/ |website=imperial.ac.uk |accessdate=11 March 2019}}</ref><ref name="Schistosomiasis Control Initiative: Supplementary Information"/> ||
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| 2010 || || Statistics || The {{w|World Health Organization}} reports that schistosomiasis mortality could be as high as 280,000 per year in {{w|Africa}} alone.<ref name="Building a global schistosomiasis alliance: an opportunity to join forces to fight inequality and rural poverty"/> ||
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| 2011 || April || Review || GiveWell publishes review of SCI, describing it as a notable organization for its promising approach and for conducting evaluations of its activities, and considering as an "organization to watch."<ref>{{cite web |title=Schistosomiasis Control Initiative (SCI) - April 2011 Review |url=https://www.givewell.org/charities/Schistosomiasis-Control-Initiative/April-2011-review |website=givewell.org |accessdate=4 May 2019}}</ref> ||
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| 2011 || November || Review || GiveWell updates review of SCI and starts recommending the organization.<ref name="Update on the Schistosomiasis Control Initiative: Our current #2-ranked charity">{{cite web |title=Update on the Schistosomiasis Control Initiative: Our current #2-ranked charity |url=https://blog.givewell.org/2012/04/19/update-on-the-schistosomiasis-control-initiative-our-current-2-ranked-charity/ |website=blog.givewell.org |accessdate=4 May 2019}}</ref> This time, SCI is described as one of GiveWell's two top-rated charities.<ref>{{cite web |title=Schistosomiasis Control Initiative (SCI) - April 2011 Review |url=https://www.givewell.org/charities/Schistosomiasis-Control-Initiative/April-2011-review |website=givewell.org |accessdate=4 May 2019}}</ref> ||
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| 2011 || || Expansion || SCI begins program in Liberia, Malawi, and Mozambique.<ref name="OUR REACH"/> || {{w|Liberia}}, {{w|Malawi}}, {{w|Mozanbique}}
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| 2012 || || Coverage || SCI reaches median coverage for schistosomiasis treatment at 77% in Malawi.<ref name="SCHISTOSOMIASIS CONTROL INITIATIVEd">{{cite web |title=SCHISTOSOMIASIS CONTROL INITIATIVE |url=https://www.givingwhatwecan.org/report/schistosomiasis-control-initiative/ |website=givingwhatwecan.org |accessdate=12 March 2019}}</ref> ||
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| 2012 || November || Review || GiveWell updates review of SCI, and recommends the organization for its focus on a program with a strong track record and excellent cost-effectiveness, demonstrated results, and room for more funding.<ref name="Schistosomiasis Control Initiative - November 2011 Review">{{cite web |title=Schistosomiasis Control Initiative - November 2011 Review |url=https://www.givewell.org/charities/schistosomiasis-control-initiative/November-2011-review |website=givewell.org |accessdate=4 May 2019}}</ref> ||
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| 2013 || April || Coverage || SCI announces that it has facilitated delivery of its 100 millionth treatment of {{w|praziquantel}} against schistosomiasis thanks to funding from private donations.<ref name="SCIvv"/> ||
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| 2013 || || || A reported 261 million people require preventive chemotherapy for schistosomiasis worldwide, 92% of them living in {{w|sub-Saharan Africa}} and only 12.7% receiving preventive chemotherapy.<ref name="Building a global schistosomiasis alliance: an opportunity to join forces to fight inequality and rural poverty">{{cite journal |last1=Savioli |first1=Lorenzo |last2=Albonico |first2=Marco |last3=Colley |first3=Daniel G. |last4=Correa-Oliveira |first4=Rodrigo |last5=Fenwick |first5=Alan |last6=Green |first6=Will |last7=Kabatereine |first7=Narcis |last8=Kabore |first8=Achille |last9=Katz |first9=Naftale |last10=Klohe |first10=Katharina |last11=LoVerde |first11=Philip T. |last12=Rollinson |first12=David |last13=Russell Stothard |first13=J. |last14=Tchuem Tchuenté |first14=Louis-Albert |last15=Waltz |first15=Johannes |last16=Zhou |first16=Xiao-Nong |title=Building a global schistosomiasis alliance: an opportunity to join forces to fight inequality and rural poverty |doi=10.1186/s40249-017-0280-8 |pmid=28330495 |url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5363045/ |pmc=5363045}}</ref> ||
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| 2013 || November || Review || GiveWell updates review of SCI, maintaining its rating as a top-rated charity.<ref>{{cite web |title=Schistosomiasis Control Initiative (SCI) - 2013 Review |url=https://www.givewell.org/charities/schistosomiasis-control-initiative/November-2013-review |website=givewell.org |accessdate=4 May 2019}}</ref> ||
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| 2013 – 2014 || Between November 2013 and April 2014 || || SCI funds mapping in {{w|Ethiopia}}.<ref name="Schistosomiasis Control Initiative: Supplementary Information"/> || {{w|Ethiopia}}
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| 2014 || June || Review || GiveWell updates review of SCI. It reports among notable plans a new opportunity to work with {{w|Sudan}} to create a national deworming program.<ref>{{cite web |title=Schistosomiasis Control Initiative - June 2014 Update |url=https://www.givewell.org/charities/schistosomiasis-control-initiative/June-2014#Spending_between_September_2013_and_March_2014 |website=givewell.org |accessdate=4 May 2019}}</ref> || {{w|Sudan}}
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| 2014 || || Expansion || SCI begins program in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Madagascar.<ref name="OUR REACH"/> || {{w|Democratic Republic of the Congo}}, {{w|Madagascar}}
| 2014 || || Funding || The British {{w|Department for International Development}} awards SCI an additional £16.6 million over four and a half years (June 2014 to December 2018) to extend the program and expand it to an additional two countries.<ref name="Schistosomiasis Control Initiative: Supplementary Information"/> ||
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| 2014 || || Coverage || ACI SCI reaches median coverage for schistosomiasis treatment at 69% in Malawi, 82% in Côte d'Ivoire, and 47% in Uganda.<ref name="SCHISTOSOMIASIS CONTROL INITIATIVEd"/> |||-| 2014 || November || Review || GiveWell updates review of SCI, maintaining its rating as a top-rated charity.<ref>{{cite web |title=Schistosomiasis Control Initiative (SCI) - 2014 Review |url=https://www.givewell.org/charities/schistosomiasis-control-initiative/November-2014-review |website=givewell.org |accessdate=4 May 2019}}</ref> ||
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| 2014 – 2015 || || Coverage || SCI reports having delivered 3.1 million treatments in Côte d'Ivoire in the period.<ref name="Schistosomiasis Control Initiative: Supplementary Information"/> || {{w|Côte d'Ivoire}}
| 2015 || || Budget || SCI begins to use a system of country cashbooks for spending breakdown, which compare monthly in-country actual spending to budgets.<ref name="Schistosomiasis Control Initiative: Supplementary Information"/> ||
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| 2015 || || Coverage || ACI SCI reaches median coverage for schistosomiasis treatment at 81% in Mozambique, 93% in Zambia (2015), and 80% in Zanzibar.<ref name="SCHISTOSOMIASIS CONTROL INITIATIVEd"/> ||
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| 2015 || || || {{w|Schistosomiasis}} is indicated to have the lowest level of preventive chemotherapy implementation in the spectrum of neglected tropical diseases. It is also highlighted as the disease most lacking in progress.<ref name="Building a global schistosomiasis alliance: an opportunity to join forces to fight inequality and rural poverty"/> ||
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| 2015 || August || Review || GiveWell updates review of SCI, and continues to recommend it for its track record implementing a cost-effective program.<ref>{{cite web |title=Schistosomiasis Control Initiative - August 2015 Update |url=https://www.givewell.org/charities/schistosomiasis-control-initiative/August-2015 |website=givewell.org |accessdate=4 May 2019}}</ref> ||
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| 2015 || November || Review || GiveWell updates review of SCI, maintaining its rating as a top-rated charity.<ref>{{cite web |title=Schistosomiasis Control Initiative (SCI) - 2015 Review |url=https://www.givewell.org/international/top-charities/schistosomiasis-control-initiative/2015-review#Is_there_room_for_more_funding |website=givewell.org |accessdate=4 May 2019}}</ref> ||
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| 2015 – 2016 || || Program || SCI plans to deliver around 0.6 million treatments and reports delivering 1.4 million treatments in Côte d'Ivoire.<ref name="Schistosomiasis Control Initiative: Supplementary Information"/> ||
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| 2016 || January || Funding || {{w|Private foundation}} {{w|Good Ventures}} awards a grant of US$1,000,000 to the SCI for general operating support, in recognition of the organization’s earning a “top charity” ranking from {{w|GiveWell}} in 2015.<ref>{{cite web |title=Schistosomiasis Control Initiative — General Support (2016) |url=https://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/global-health-and-development/miscellaneous/schistosomiasis-control-initiative-general-support-2016 |website=openphilanthropy.org |accessdate=11 March 2019}}</ref> ||
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| 2016 || June || Review || GiveWell publishes review of SCI, retaining its role as top rated charity, but expressing concerns about SCI's use of an accounting system ill-suited to its needs, and substantial financial errors impacting funding from GiveWell-influenced donors.<ref>{{cite web |title=Schistosomiasis Control Initiative (SCI) – June 2016 version |url=https://www.givewell.org/charities/schistosomiasis-control-initiative/june-2016-version |website=givewell.org |accessdate=5 May 2019}}</ref> ||
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| 2016 || August || Review || GiveWell estimates that programs supported by SCI can deworm a person for approximately US$1.26 based (including the estimated cost of SCI’s funding to country programs, SCI’s headquarters costs, cost of donated drugs, and local government involvement).<ref name="SCHISTOSOMIASIS CONTROL INITIATIVEd"/> ||
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| 2016 || November || Review || {{w|GiveWell}} reviews SCI and ranks it as one of its top-rated charities, explaining that it "offers donors an outstanding opportunity to accomplish good with their donations".<ref>{{cite web |title=Schistosomiasis Control Initiative - January 2017 Version |url=https://www.givewell.org/charities/schistosomiasis-control-initiative/january-2017-version |website=givewell.org |accessdate=4 May 2019}}</ref> ||
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| 2017 || January || Funding || Good Ventures awards a grant of US$13,500,000 to SCI for general operating support, in recognition of its earning a “top charity” ranking from GiveWell in 2016.<ref name="Schistosomiasis Control Initiative — General Support (2017)">{{cite web |title=Schistosomiasis Control Initiative — General Support (2017) |url=https://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/global-health-and-development/miscellaneous/schistosomiasis-control-initiative-general-support-2017 |website=openphilanthropy.org |accessdate=11 March 2019}}</ref> ||
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| 2017 || October || Budget || SCI estimates that it would cost US$0.24 on average per additional treatment delivered to a school-aged child.<ref name="Schistosomiasis Control Initiative: Supplementary Information"/> ||
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| 2017 || November || Review || GiveWell updates review on SCI and estimates that it could productively use roughly US$30 million more than it expects to receive to deliver treatments to school-aged children over the next three years. It could use almost three times this amount if it were to follow {{w|World Health Organization}} guidelines, which recommend treating adults in certain circumstances. However, GiveWell does not recommend funding to treat adults because it has not seen sufficient evidence on the impact of treating adults.<ref>{{cite web |title=Schistosomiasis Control Initiative - November 2017 Version |url=https://www.givewell.org/charities/schistosomiasis-control-initiative/November-2017-version |website=givewell.org |accessdate=4 May 2019}}</ref> ||
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| 2017 || || Budget || GiveWell allocates 100% of its discretionary fund to the SCI in the fourth quarter of the year, totalling US$5.6 million.<ref name="HOW YOUR MONEY IS SPENT">{{cite web |title=HOW YOUR MONEY IS SPENT |url=https://www.schistosomiasiscontrolinitiative.org/how-money-is-spent |website=schistosomiasiscontrolinitiative.org |accessdate=15 March 2019}}</ref> ||
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| 2018 || March || Funding || GiveWell allocates 100% of its discretionary fund to the SCI, totalling US$5.6 million. It allocates a further $0.89 million to the SCI in the first quarter of 2018, which is 30% of its discretionary fund for that period.<ref name="HOW YOUR MONEY IS SPENT"/><ref name="Discretionary Grantmaking"/> |||-| 2018 || May || Funding || GiveWell allocates 30% of its US$3 million in discretionary fund to SCI.<ref name="Discretionary Grantmaking"/> |||-| 2018 || August || Funding || GiveWell allocates 30% of its US$4.1 million in discretionary fund to SCI.<ref name="Discretionary Grantmaking">{{cite web |title=Discretionary Grantmaking |url=https://www.givewell.org/about/FAQ/discretionary-grantmaking |website=givewell.org |accessdate=19 April 2019}}</ref> |||-| 2018 || November || Funding || GiveWell recommends that {{w|Good Ventures}} grant $2.5 million to SCI,<ref>{{cite web |title=2018 Allocation to GiveWell Top Charities |url=https://www.openphilanthropy.org/blog/2018-allocation-givewell-top-charities |website=openphilanthropy.org |accessdate=20 April 2019}}</ref> which is recommended for its focus on a program with a strong track record and excellent cost-effectiveness, standout transparency, and room for more funding.<ref>{{cite web |title=Schistosomiasis Control Initiative |url=https://www.givewell.org/charities/Schistosomiasis-Control-Initiative |website=givewell.org |accessdate=4 May 2019}}</ref> ||
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| 2019 || March || Funding || {{w|GiveWell}} updates its estimate of SCI's room for more funding from US$16.8 million to $28.7 million as a result of incorporating SCI's updates to its projections for how much funding it expects to receive from other funders over the next few years.<ref name="Schistosomiasis Control Initiative: Supplementary Information"/> ||
==See also==
 
* [[Timeline of deworming]]
* [[Timeline of GiveWell]]
* [[Timeline of Against Malaria Foundation]]
==External links==
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