Malaria Journal

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School-based participatory health education for malaria control in Ghana: engaging children as health messengers

Irene Ayi1, Daisuke Nonaka2,3, Josiah K Adjovu4, Shigeki Hanafusa5, Masamine Jimba2, Kwabena M Bosompem1, Tetsuya Mizoue3, Tsutomu Takeuchi6, Daniel A Boakye1 and Jun Kobayashi5*

Author Affiliations

1 West African Centre for International Parasite Control, Parasitology Department, Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, University of Ghana, Legon, Accra, Ghana

2 Department of Community and Global Health, Graduate School of Medicine, the University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo, Tokyo, Japan

3 Department of Epidemiology and International Health, International Clinical Research Center, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, 1-21-1 Toyama, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan

4 Zoology Department, University of Ghana, Legon, Accra, Ghana

5 Bureau of International Medical Cooperation, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, 1-21-1 Toyama, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan

6 Department of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology, School of Medicine, Keio University, 35 Shinano-machi, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan

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Malaria Journal 2010, 9:98 doi:10.1186/1475-2875-9-98

Published: 18 April 2010

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Appendix: Teacher training programme. The appendix shows detailed contents of the teacher training and teaching aids used in the training.

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