Prevention remains the best way of combating this disease. Preventative work includes :
- Training community health workers, medical staff, traditional healers and birth attendants
- Developing and implementing information and education programs for the community
- Supporting primary health care services to help them to care for patients
- Facilitating access to primary care for the most remote populations
- Making products for primary care readily available and easily accessible
- Combating malnutrition by distributing dietary supplements (spirulina)