Increasing Women's Engagement in Vector Control: a Report from Accelerate To Equal Project Workshops

Overview

Journal Malar J

Publisher Biomed Central

Specialty Tropical Medicine

Date 2018 Sep 12

PMID 30200986

Citations 6

Authors

Kacey C Ernst

Erika Barrett

Elizabeth Hoswell

Mary H Hayden

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Abstract

Workshops with academic, national and local government, and community stakeholders were held in Kenya (2017) and Indonesia (2018) to understand the role and perceptions of women in vector control and to identify strategies for accelerating involvement of women in sustained support for vector control interventions at multiple levels/sectors.

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References

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