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Socio-economic and cultural factors in the research and control trypanosomiasis

Year of publication 2003

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages 75

Author Kamuanga, M.;

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Book (series)

ISBN 9251049297

Series title PAAT Technical and Scientific Series

Series number 4

Synopsis (short abstract) African animal trypanosomiasis affects the entire economy of livestock-agricultural production in vast zones of tsetse-infested areas. The presence of the diasease influences where people decide to live and the management of their livestock. Trypanosomiasis has, therefore, cultural and socio-economic implications on teh day-to-day life of the rural comunities of affected areas. In the past, cultural and socio-economic factors were not duly considered and incorporated as integral parts of a tsets e and trypanosomiasis (T&T) intervention programme. Nowadays, planners, policy-and-decision makers have realized that the research and control of T&T need to embrace the understanding the socio-economic and cultural impacts of of the disease.

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Kamuanga, M. 2003. Socio-economic and cultural factors in the research and control trypanosomiasis. PAAT Technical and Scientific Series, No. 4. Rome, FAO.

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