Community empowerment for malaria control in Africa

Sponsor: National Institutes of Health, USA

IHRDC Investigators: GF Killeen
Partners: WR Mukabana & EM Mathenge, University of Nairobi, Kenya, I Kiche, Rusinga Island Child and Family Programme/Christian Children's Fund, Kenya, U Fillinger, University of Durham, UK, BH Singer; Princeton University, USA

Rusinga Island is home to approximately 20,000 members of an isolated, underdeveloped and highly disadvantaged community in Western Kenya where malaria is stable and endemic but nevertheless readily vulnerable to concerted attack through systematic vector control. This project aims to execute an integrated programme of education, behaviour change, systematic vector control and environmental management on Rusinga Island by harnessing existing implementation mechanisms using a novel community empowerment strategy.