Community acceptance of tsetse control baits: a qualitative study in Arua District, North West Uganda.

ABSTRACT:

Background

There is renewed vigour in efforts to eliminate neglected tropical diseases including sleeping sickness (human African trypanosomiasis or HAT), including attempts to develop more cost-effective methods of tsetse control. In the West Nile region of Uganda, newly designed insecticide-treated targets are being deployed over an area of ∼500 km(2). The operational area covers villages where tsetse control has not been conducted previously. The effectiveness of the targets will depend, in part, on their acceptance by the local community.

Methodology/principal findings

We assessed knowledge, perceptions and acceptance of tsetse baits (traps, targets) in villages where they had or had not been used previously. We conducted sixteen focus group discussions with male and fem

SUBMITTER: Kovacic V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3861179 | biostudies-literature | 2013

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature