Objectives:

To capacitate Healthcare workers on Malaria Elimination and Prevention efforts

Questions/key issues to be covered:

•    Country Update-Where We Are Now
•    Surveillance 
•    Case Management
•    Vector Control
•    Health promotion
•    The Urgency to End Malaria
Global overview of malaria burden and progress toward elimination 

•    Community Engagement and Behaviour Change
•    Promoting early care-seeking behaviour 
•    Community awareness and education strategies 
•    Addressing myths and misconceptions 

Speakers:

Basil Brooke
Head of the Vector Control Reference Laboratory of the National Institute for Communicable Diseases/NHLS

Ms Ednah Baloyi
Director Malaria and Other Vector Borne Diseases

Dr Pandey Dhruv
Medical Officer, Tropical and Vector Borne Diseases

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

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