Scale-up of community-based malaria control can be achieved without degrading community health workers' service quality: the Village Malaria Worker project in Cambodia

• Published in: Malaria Journal
• Main Authors: Yasuoka Junko, Poudel Krishna C, Ly Po, Nguon Chea, Socheat Duong, Jimba Masamine
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: BMC 2012
• Subjects: Scale-up; Malaria control; Community health workers; Service quality; Cambodia; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Infectious and parasitic diseases; RC109-216; Arctic; Ari
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1186/1475-2875-11-4; https://doaj.org/article/43f96aaf362f46bab2eaf2fe1d095c02

Abstract Background Malaria control has been scaled up in many developing countries in their efforts to achieve the Millennium Development Goals. Cambodia recently scaled up their Village Malaria Worker (VMW) project by substantially increasing the number of VMWs and expanding the project's hea...