Capacity of community-based organisations to disseminate sleeping sickness information
Date
2005-08Author
Bukachi, SA
Nyamwaro, SO
Matete, GO
Karuga, JW
Type
ArticleLanguage
enMetadata
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OBJECTIVE:
To assess the capacity of established community based organisations (CBOs) to disseminate information on sleeping sickness control.
DESIGN:
Participatory interview process administered to randomly selected CBOs in a tsetse and trypanosomosis endemic area.
SETTING:
Busia district, Western, Kenya.
RESULTS:
Community based organisations especially women groups and farmer field schools that are internally initiated have the potential to contribute greatly to sustainable sleeping sickness dissemination strategies. The study indicated a mean reach of between 400-600 persons per day, but with a range of up to 1000 persons per day.
CONCLUSION:
Internally initiated women groups may be the best options for targeting health education programmes with the aim of ensuring sustained community participation.
URI
http://hinari-gw.who.int/whalecomwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/whalecom0/pubmed/16261917http://erepository.uonbi.ac.ke:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/33341
Citation
East Afr Med J. 2005 Aug;82(8):409-13.Publisher
University of Nairobi. Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Parasitology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Nairobi, Kenya.