Socio-economic and cultural factors in the research and control trypanosomiasis
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African animal trypanosomiasis affects the entire economy of livestock-agricultural production in vast zones of tsetse-infested areas. The presence of the diasease influences where people decide to live and the management of their livestock. Trypanosomiasis has, therefore, cultural and socio-economic implications on teh day-to-day life of the rural comunities of affected areas. In the past, cultural and socio-economic factors were not duly considered and incorporated as integral parts of a tsets e and trypanosomiasis (T&T) intervention programme. Nowadays, planners, policy-and-decision makers have realized that the research and control of T&T need to embrace the understanding the socio-economic and cultural impacts of of the disease.