MALARIA: Indonesia, Village Health Workers

The World Health Organization has identified the continued presence of Malaria in Indonesia as a community health program, and in April 2000 Indonesia joined the Roll Back Malaria Global partnership. Since then efforts to combat malaria in Indonesia have included mass treatment and fever surveys, spraying of houses with insecticide and draining potential insect breeding places.
To help this effort to reduce the number of malaria cases in Indonesia, the Red Cross is working to combat malaria in tsunami-affected communities, as part of its five-year recovery plan. The project aims to reduce the incidence of and mortality rate from malaria in 51 villages throughout four districts (Aceh Jaya, Sabang, Banda Aceh and Bireun) of Aceh province.
Since the start of CBHFA, more than 750 village health volunteers have been trained and have disseminated malaria related information to almost 4,000 high-risk community members through community level health education sessions, household visits, disseminating educational materials, community sign boards and radio campaigns.
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