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Local participation improves outcomes of malaria intervention in West Africa.
Posted on October 4, 2008 by theafricanhealer
A recent Medicin-Sans-Frontier report on the impact of malaria interventions in West Africa gives important insight and supporting evidence that giving basic training and putting modern technologies in the hands of indigenous healthcare workers chosen by local communities, can have a significant positive impact on the success of malaria interventions. Even though the MSF report heavily credits financial and technological components for the success of its malaria projects in Sierra Leone, Mali and Chad, it understates the contributions of the innovative community involvement that the projects implemented.....
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Eluemuno Blyden
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