Implementation of a novel malaria management strategy based on self-testing and self-treatment in remote areas in the Amazon (Malakit): confronting a-priori assumptions with reality

• Main Authors: Muriel Suzanne Galindo (Author), Yann Lambert (Author), Louise Mutricy (Author), Laure Garancher (Author), Jane Bordalo Miller (Author), José Hermenegildo Gomes (Author), Alice Sanna (Author), Cassio Peterka (Author), Hedley Cairo (Author), Helene Hiwat (Author), Antoine Adenis (Author), Mathieu Nacher (Author), Martha Cecilia Suárez-Mutis (Author), Stephen Vreden (Author), Maylis Douine (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2022-04-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background A novel strategy to combat malaria was tested using a methodology adapted to a complex setting in the Amazon region and a hard-to-reach, mobile community. The intervention strategy tested was the distribution, after training, of malaria self-management kits to gold miners who cro...