Vanja Kovacic

TL;DR: Comparison with the updated cost of historical HAT vector control projects and recent estimates indicates that this work represents a major reduction in cost levels, attributed not just to the low unit cost of tiny targets but also to the organisation of delivery, using local labour with bicycles or motorcycles.

TL;DR: Despite their proximity, acceptance of traps varies markedly between villages and this is related to the duration of experience with tsetse control programs, suggesting the success of community-based interventions against tsete will depend on early engagements with communities and carefully designed sensitization campaigns.

TL;DR: It is identified that details related to medical procedures can remain captured in a community’s collective memory for decades, and more emphasis on communication between disease control programme planners and communities using detailed and transparent information distribution is recommended.

TL;DR: Achieving the 2020 goals for Neglected Tropical Diseases requires scale-up of Mass Drug Administration (MDA) which will require long-term commitment of national and global financing partners, strengthening national capacity and, at the community level, systems to monitor and evaluate activities and impact.