Liberia: Youths Brainstorm to Ensure National Inclusion In Malaria Elimination at Grassroot Level
Liberia: Youths Brainstorm to Ensure National Inclusion In Malaria Elimination at Grassroot Level
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The Executive Director of YouthAid-Liberia, Swaliho M. Fofana (with glasses) and other participants at the opening of the consultative meeting
MONROVIA – YouthAid-Liberia and partners have commenced a two-day consultative meeting on the elimination of malaria in the country, with a call for a holistic approach towards the combat against the killer disease through the full inclusion and involvement of citizens, particularly youths at the grass-root level.
The consultative meeting commenced in Monrovia on Tuesday, June 8 with funding from Civil Society for Malaria Elimination based in Yaounde, Cameroun with support from Impact Sante Afrique (ISA).
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Johannesburg Partners in malaria elimination have come together on community engagement in malaria control and elimination, and shared tools and experiences on fighting the parasitic disease. The gathering on February 19 included researchers, community leaders, academics and international partners.
Opening remarks were by Kelly Harvard, a researcher at Malaria Elimination Initiative, the University of California, who presented results from a background paper on community engagement, on behalf of her fellow researchers.
According to Harvard, community engagement should be a central feature of malaria programming. However, community engagement is not consistently defined, operationalised, or evaluated and this has led to a number of different activities, strategies, and programs all commonly referred to as community engagement even though the goals and outcomes vary and this i