Setting-up a cross-border action-research project to control malaria in remote areas of the Amazon: describing the birth and milestones of a complex international project (Malakit)

Setting-up a cross-border action-research project to control malaria in remote areas of the Amazon: describing the birth and milestones of a complex international project (Malakit)

Abstract Background In French Guiana, gold miners working illegally represents a major reservoir of malaria. This mobile population, mainly of Brazilian descent, enters the French Guianese forest from neighbouring countries, Suriname and Brazil. A complex and innovative intervention was piloted as a...

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Main Authors: Muriel Suzanne Galindo, Yann Lambert, Louise Mutricy, Laure Garancher, Jane Bordalo Miller, José Hermenegildo Gomes, Alice Sanna, Cassio Peterka, Hélène Hilderal, Hedley Cairo, Helene Hiwat, Mathieu Nacher, Martha Cecilia Suárez-Mutis, Stephen Vreden, Maylis Douine
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2021-05-01
Series:Malaria Journal
Subjects:
Complex intervention
Action-research
Implementation science
Border malaria
Malaria control
Mining population
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12936-021-03748-5

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https://doi.org/10.1186/s12936-021-03748-5

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