ABSTRACT
Guinea
worm is a very serious disease which is contracted when a person drinks any
water that has been contaminated with the larvae or walks unprotected in
infected waters, this disease has eaten deep into the bone marrow of most
developing countries especially in the rural areas of these countries, though
efforts has been made and still being made it has to be treated or fought
severely for it to be entirely eradicated. That is why the researcher embarked
on this research to study and bring out the roles of radio and interpersonal
communication in the eradication of guinea worm using Nkalagu community as a
case study. The work will be divided into five chapters to allow it to be
treated better. Chapter one will comprise or contain from the brief
introduction of the study to the scope and limitation of the research. Chapter
two will be reviewing relevant literatures on the roles of radio and
interpersonal communication in the eradication of guinea worm. Chapter three
will deal on the methodology and strategies that will be used in the collection
of data for the research, then this data that has been collected will be
carefully and clearly presented in tables and interpreted in chapter four while
chapter five will give the summary, conclusion and recommendations for further
study.