Preventive chemotherapy (deworming), using annual or biannuala single-dose albendazole (400 mg) or mebendazole (500 mg), is recommended as a public health intervention for all non-pregnant adolescent girls and women of reproductive age, including postpartum and/or lactating women, living in areas where the baseline prevalence of any soil-transmitted helminth infection is 20% or more among adolescent girls and women of reproductive age, in order to reduce the worm burden of soil-transmitted helminths