As a result, schools usually added dengue education into their curriculum and into extracurricular activities by participating with Mesocyclops inoculation and community clean up campaigns.
A choice experiment approach was used to estimate preferences of 287 smallholders, of which half were participating with the timber industry under Company-Community Partnership schemes.
A combination of active and passive case detection was used to identify children in participating communities with malaria using a standard case definition of clinical malaria (see below).
We see it every day as people give of their time, energy and compassion to serve communities, participate with countless organizations and help those in need.
16 Specific objectives were to determine cluster level entomological and serological status; translate these results into action against dengue through dialogue with participating communities; and identify cluster level real life impact of informed community mobilization.
Follow-up conversations with participating communities in February 2015, 4 months after the conclusion of USAID ASSIST technical support, revealed that community teams continued to meet regularly to identify and address additional areas for improvement.
It is a difficult enough process to engage with participating communities when studies are stopped for safety or futility reasons, as the recent HIV vaccine STEP and Phambili study stoppages have shown [ 11, 12].
This approach facilitates explicit attention to background conditions of injustice in society and encourages observational researchers to include the benefits of this type of assistance among the range of benefits negotiated with participating communities, rather than avoiding them in favour of benefits that are easier to achieve.
We subsequently completed a memorandum of understanding, which articulated the responsibilities and benefits of study participation, with each participating community.
"It creates an alternative to the media-driven forecasts we are bombarded with, by asking the community to participate with their own fears and superstitions," explains a statement about the project on Marzec's website.
