Authors: Onwujekwe O, Dike N, Ojukwu J, Uzochukwu B, Ezumah N, Shu E, Okonkwo P.
The African Heads of State meeting in Abuja, Nigeria on Roll Back Malaria adopted effective treatment of malaria nearer the home as one of the strategies for malaria control in Africa. A potentially effective strategy for bringing early, appropriate and low cost treatment of malaria closer to the home is through the use of community health workers (CHWs). There is a paucity of information about people’s actual preferences for CHWs; and the response to the CHW and other strategies for improving the timeliness of malaria treatment in Nigeria and other malaria endemic countries. Community health workers can be used to improve and ensure timely and appropriate treatment of malaria. The CHW strategy could also be sustained since it was preferred and used by consumers over self-treatment in the homes;hence, the CHW strategy is a feasible and promising method of improving home-management of uncomplicated malaria.
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Resource Topic: Care Teams, Community Case Management, Community Health Workers/Volunteers, Malaria
Resource Type: Evaluation, Journal articles, Research
Year: 2006
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Country: Nigeria
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