Trapping the Vector
Community Action to Curb Sleeping Sickness in Southern Sudan
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11026171 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lasu Lauya Joja (Lasu Lauya Joja is with CARE International, South Sudan, Nairobi, Kenya. Uzo Amaka Okoli is a consultant.), Uzo Amaka Okoli (Lasu Lauya Joja is with CARE International, South Sudan, Nairobi, Kenya. Uzo Amaka Okoli is a consultant.) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 91 |
| Issue | 10 |
| Pages | 1583-1585 |
| Publication date | 2001-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Public Health (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0090-0036 • E-ISSN: 1541-0048 |
| Publisher | American Public Health Association (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2105/ajph.91.10.1583 |
| PMID | 11574312 |
| OpenAlex | W1966704177 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 5 |
South Sudan experienced a resurgence of trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness) in the 1990s. In 1997 in Tambura County, public health officials combined standard mass screening and treatment techniques for infected persons with an additional component—trapping the vectors of the disease. The intent of this integrated approach was to lower the number and concentration of the tsetse flies that spread the disease while reducing the level of infection in the human population to make the likelihood of transmission extremely low. Because the trapping project depends on village participation (making, setting, and maintaining the traps), village volunteers and their neighbors learned more about the causes and prevention of sleeping sickness and became much more willing to participate in serosurveys and to seek treatment
African trypanosomiasis · Biology · Environmental health · Family medicine · Pathology · Population · Public health · Socioeconomics · Sociology · Transmission (telecommunications) · Trypanosomiasis · Vector (molecular biology) · Demography · Immunology · Medicine · Research on Leishmaniasis Studies · Trypanosoma species research and implications
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.12 |
| Citation span | 2001 - 2022 (22) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |