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Am J Public Health

Title:		Trapping the vector: community action to curb sleeping sickness in southern Sudan
Author(s):		Joja LL; Okoli UA;
Address:		"CARE International, South Sudan, PO Box 2039, KNH, Nairobi, Kenya"
Journal Title:		Am J Public Health
Year:		2001
Volume:		91
Issue:		10
Page Number:		1583 - 1585
DOI:		10.2105/ajph.91.10.1583
ISSN/ISBN:		0090-0036 (Print) 1541-0048 (Electronic) 0090-0036 (Linking)
Abstract:		"South Sudan experienced a resurgence of trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness) in the 1990s. In 1997 in Tambura County, public health officials combined standard mass screening and treatment techniques for infected persons with an additional component-trapping the vectors of the disease. The intent of this integrated approach was to lower the number and concentration of the tsetse flies that spread the disease while reducing the level of infection in the human population to make the likelihood of transmission extremely low. Because the trapping project depends on village participation (making, setting, and maintaining the traps), village volunteers and their neighbors learned more about the causes and prevention of sleeping sickness and became much more willing to participate in serosurveys and to seek treatment"
Keywords:		Animals Community Health Services/*organization & administration *Community Participation Health Promotion/*organization & administration Humans *Insect Vectors Pilot Projects Program Evaluation Sudan/epidemiology Trypanosomiasis/epidemiology/*prevention;
Notes:		"MedlineJoja, L L Okoli, U A eng Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S. 2001/09/28 Am J Public Health. 2001 Oct; 91(10):1583-5. doi: 10.2105/ajph.91.10.1583"