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Participatory mapping of target areas to enable operational larval source management to suppress malaria vector mosquitoes in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Stefan Dongus1,2,3*, Dickson Nyika3,4,5, Khadija Kannady4, Deo Mtasiwa4, Hassan Mshinda3, Ulrike Fillinger6, Axel W Drescher2, Marcel Tanner1, Marcia C Castro7 and Gerry F Killeen1,3,6

1 Department of Public Health and Epidemiology, Swiss Tropical Institute, Basel, Switzerland

2 Department of Physical Geography, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

3 Ifakara Health Research and Development Centre, Coordination Office, Dar es Salaam, United Republic of Tanzania

4 City Medical Office of Health, Dar es Salaam City Council, Dar es Salaam, United Republic of Tanzania

5 Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security, Dar es Salaam, United Republic of Tanzania

6 Institute of Ecosystems Science, School of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Durham University, Durham, UK

7 Department of Population and International Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, USA

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International Journal of Health Geographics 2007, 6:37 doi:10.1186/1476-072X-6-37

Published: 4 September 2007

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Guidelines for ten-cell-unit mapping. "Guidelines for 10-cell unit mapping to be carried out by the Community-Owned Resource Persons and the wards malaria vector control supervisors" (pdf format) [31]. These guidelines describe the procedure for sketch mapping in detail, and have been distributed by the UMCP management to the CORPs and their supervising staff.

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