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Policy Brief: Improving Access to Malaria Diagnosis and Treatment in Remote Areas of the Amazon Basin Countries

On September 08, 2014 in AMI, Malaria

It is important to build an evidence-based approach to justify the launch of new interventions and to evaluate their impact. The Amazon Malaria Initiative is advocating a systematic implementation of locally appropriate interventions and documentation of results. The Suriname Ministry of Health (MOH) commissioned a knowledge, attitudes, and practices (KAP) study of malaria diagnosis and … Read more

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Study on the knowledge, attitudes and practices of malaria and malaria treatment in the small-scale gold mining sector in Suriname

On February 04, 2014 in AMI, Malaria, Technical Report

This report presents the results of a knowledge, attitudes and practices (KAP) study of malaria treatment in a small-scale gold mining sector in Suriname. The KAP study was commissioned by the Government of Suriname/Global Fund “Searching for Gold, Finding Malaria” program in collaboration with USAID-funded SIAPS and PAHO. The goal of the study was to document malaria treatment–seeking … Read more

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