| guinea worm disease--a chance for successful eradication in the volta region, ghana. | a guinea worm eradication program in two farming communities in the akatsi district in the volta region of ghana was initially threatened by failure to apply simple preventive practices. persistent monitoring and education on the use of locally supplied, inexpensive materials for water filtration has turned the program around. in march 1996, the volta rural water supply and sanitation (vrwss) project commissioned a guinea worm prevalence and knowledge, attitude and practice (kap) study to collec ... | 1998 | 9681910 |