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Routine case investigation and reactive case detection in Southern Province, Zambia

Objectives

To build an innovative system using mobile phones and simple decision support frameworks, capable of picking up malaria cases not otherwise found by traditional health and develop the first community health worker malaria surveillance and treatment network in Zambia.

The Community-level malaria surveillance system provides a means to sensitively detect malaria infections through community health worker networks and report malaria data by mobile phone.

Principal Institution

PATH, United States

Principal Investigators / Focal Persons

Daniel Bridges
John Miller

Date

Jan 2011 — Dec 2017

Country / Project Site(s)

Zambia

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