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Capacity of Community-Based Organisations to disseminate sleeping sickness information
Abstract
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.
East African Medical Journal Vol. 82(8) 2005: 409-413
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.
East African Medical Journal Vol. 82(8) 2005: 409-413
