Objectives:

•    Doxycycline as a malaria chemoprophylaxis, clarify it’s role within national malaria prevention strategies
•    Share clinical guidelines and operational experiences for prescribing and distributing Doxycycline
•    Discuss the role of Social and Behaviour Change Communication (SBCC) in malaria prevention
•    Facilitate knowledge exchange between policymakers, researchers, and practitioners for sustained malaria      elimination

Questions/key issues to be covered:

•    Role of Doxycycline for malaria in South Africa
•    Understanding Doxycycline: Mechanism & Efficacy Indications, Comparative efficacy with other options & EML specifications
•    Operational use of Chemoprophylaxis and SBCC in Gauteng ’s
•    EML specifications for Doxycycline
•    Treatment strategies to combat malaria

Speakers:

Ms MB Shandukani
Acting-Director Malaria and Other Vector Borne Diseases

Dr. Jaishree Raman
Principal Medical Scientist
Head: Laboratory for Antimalarial Resistance Monitoring and Malaria Operational Research (ARMMOR)

Prof. Karen I Barnes
Professor of clinical pharmacology

Ms Sumari Davis
General Manager of Amayeza

Pinkie Kumalo
Deputy manager (Nursing)

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