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. 2015 Oct 16:14:410.
doi: 10.1186/s12936-015-0931-9.

Reimagining malaria: five reasons to strengthen community engagement in the lead up to malaria elimination

Maxine Whittaker  1 , Catherine Smith  2
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Reimagining malaria: five reasons to strengthen community engagement in the lead up to malaria elimination

Maxine Whittaker et al. Malar J. .

Abstract

Although community engagement has been recognized as an important element of public health since the Alma Ata declaration, in practice community engagement has played a marginal role within malaria control programmes. As more countries move toward elimination, malaria elimination programmes will need to reimagine malaria in a number of ways. An important element of this will be to re-conceptualize and better strategize community engagement, which will become increasingly important for programme success as countries near elimination. This commentary intends to begin a conversation on re-imagining community engagement in an elimination setting, by outlining five ways that community engagement should be strengthened and re-strategized in the lead up to malaria elimination.

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Degrees of community participation on the path to elimination
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