|
Written by Moses N Katabarwa
This article addresses the challenges faced by community directed treatment programmes for onchocerciasis (a parasitic disease) in Uganda, suggesting the challenges faced by current programmes could be minimised by using traditional kinship structures in the community. This study shows that kinship enhanced community based programmes perform better than classical methods
Read more: Traditional kinship structures enhance community treatment of onchocerciasis in Uganda
Written by Malcolm Potts
This article highlights new evidence supporting the use of misoprostol to treat post partum haemorrhage, which may be the only intervention available in resource poor settings. Post partum haemorrhage is the commonest cause of maternal death, from which one women dies every 7 minutes.
Read more: Maternal mortality: one death every seven minutes
Written by David H Molyneux
This article examines the current efforts being made in achieving the targets set by the Global Malaria Plan. Positively they propose that the GFATM Board and the UN community should now recognise the weight of evidence supporting the integration of malaria and neglected tropical disease control interventions at the community level.
Read more: Neglected tropical diseases and the Global Fund
Written by V Vanlerberghe
This article illustrates how the community are managing dengue, a mosquito borne viral disease ultimately through this cluster randomised trial. The object is to assess the effectiveness of an integrated community based environmental management strategy compared to a routine strategy.
Read more: Community involvement in dengue vector control: cluster randomised trial
|
