Objectives:

•    Raising Awareness: Educating communities about the signs and symptoms of malaria to encourage early diagnosis and treatment.
•    Promoting Prevention: Encouraging the use of personal protective measures, such as insecticide-treated nets and indoor spraying, to prevent mosquito bites.
•    Community Engagement: Mobilizing communities to participate in malaria control programs actively and to seek timely medical attention when ill.
•    Strengthening Health Systems: Building resilient health systems that are capable of effectively responding to malaria and other health threats
•    Raising Awareness: Educating communities about the signs and symptoms of malaria to encourage early diagnosis and treatment.

Questions/key issues to be covered:

•    Using digital health tools and real-time surveillance (DHIS2, NMC apps, GIS) for early detection and rapid response.
•    Overview of global and regional malaria trends
•    Role of community health workers, traditional leaders, and local structures in malaria prevention and surveillance.
•    How a resilient health system integrates malaria services with maternal, child, and other public health programmes.
•    Innovative health promotion strategies (mass media, digital platforms, schools, workplaces).
•    Addressing external threats (climate variability, mobility, and socio-economic shifts)

Speakers:

Dr Taneshka Kruger
Project Manager: University of Pretoria Institute for Sustainable Malaria Control (UP ISMC)

Ms Mabatho Mogadime
Assistant Director

Ms Ziyanda Fekema
Information Officer

Dr Devanand Moonasar
Public Health Emergency Preparedness and Response; Malaria, NTDs and One Health

Dr GE Tovhakale
Public Health Medicine Registrar

Armanda Paula Chuva Levene
Public Health Professional

Mr Sifiso Ngubeni
Assistant Director