RTI International's Malaria Prevention Program
Filed in archive Int'l Development on December 12, 2006
Some recent good news from RTI International on a malaria prevention program it has instituted in South Africa:
As part of an effort to prevent the spread of malaria, RTI International led a collaborative effort to design and implement an education program delivering malaria prevention and treatment messages to more than 600,000 South Africans.
The project, funded by S.C. Johnson & Son and involving South Africa's National Department of Health, Medical Research Council, and Malaria Control Programs in the Kwazulu-Natal, Mpumalanga, and Limpopo provinces, was implemented during the 2004-2005 and 2005-2006 malaria seasons and delivers malaria education to school children and community members in order to improve knowledge about the disease, teach prevention methods, and encourage those with malaria symptoms to seek treatment and comply with prescribed medical treatment.
"South Africa's Malaria Control Program has been quite successful in establishing procedures for mosquito control; however, it was looking to improve its outreach and communications approaches with communities in at-risk areas," said Eugene Brantly, malaria program director at RTI International. "The partners on this project collaborated to develop a malaria outreach program that has now been integrated into South Africa's mainstream health promotion efforts and will continue to reach people in malaria-affected areas of the country."
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