Malaria Competence Network collaborates to roll back malaria.

Authors

  • Ibrahim Kamara
  • Komlan Toulassi Blaise Sedoh

Keywords:

malaria, health, self help, community development, Africa, Asia

Abstract

This story charts the path of a facilitation team known as the Mombasa Group which was formed in the summer of 2005. Its goal was to develop malaria-competent societies where vulnerable people stop seeing malaria as a fact of life, and take the lead in fighting the disease. With malaria competence, communities are using their own resources and also accessing other resources to achieve more and have plans for the future. Face-to-face learning, sharing and transfer has been taking place between countries such as Guinea Bissau and Benin; Sierra Leone and the Gambia; Sierra Leone and Cameroon; Sierra Leone and Tanzania, and Togo and Cameroon. This has inspired many people or countries in the group to improve their own malaria activities in a move towards rolling back malaria.

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Published

2007-01-29