Involvement of Mitanins (female health volunteers) in active malaria surveillance, determinants and challenges in tribal populated malaria endemic villages of Chhattisgarh, India

• Main Authors: Mehul Kumar Chourasia (Author), Kamaraju Raghavendra (Author), Rajendra Mohan Bhatt (Author), Dipak Kumar Swain (Author), G. D. P. Dutta (Author), Immo Kleinschmidt (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2017-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHA), female health volunteers working at village level have become an integral component of National Health Mission (NHM) in India in the past two decades. Mitanin (meaning female friend in local dialect), a precursor of ASHA, play an indispe...