A mixed methods study of a health worker training intervention to increase syndromic referral for gambiense human African trypanosomiasis in South Sudan.

• Main Authors: Jennifer J Palmer (Author), Elizeous I Surur (Author), Francesco Checchi (Author), Fayaz Ahmad (Author), Franklin Kweku Ackom (Author), Christopher J M Whitty (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2014-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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BACKGROUND:Active screening by mobile teams is considered the most effective method for detecting gambiense-type human African trypanosomiasis (HAT) but constrained funding in many post-conflict countries limits this approach. Non-specialist health care workers (HCWs) in peripheral health facilities...