A new approach to community participation in tsetse control in the Busoga sleeping sickness focus; Uganda. A preliminary report

A process is described by which trapping technology is being taught to a rural community which has been affected continuously by an epidemic of sleeping sickness for over a decade. Through a systematic health education programme; people are actively involved in making and setting traps and in learning about the general characteristics of the tsetse fly and the disease. A mono-screen trap has been developed for community use and is being used to trap flies. This is the first time that this kind of community participation has been attempted in tsetse control--and this approach is discussed in relation to other approaches

Implications for Research on Health Care Financing : discussion Paper

Health care financing needs be related to the physical; social and political aspects of the environment which; in most instances; determine or at least influence the economics of health service provision. There is need to look at the constraints of fiscal limitations and political expediency. more important; data is necessary on: . who provides the financing and in which combination. -GDP devoted to ehalth care. - Methods for payment for health care; - data on auxiliary healp; - dependency on private or public financing. . What categorization for financing by both financier and user - which service provision element(s) for which financing. . How is it planned; organised and executed. . Accountability and sustainability