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Malaria Prevention and Control in Liberia
by Sheila Agiti
Host Organization: National Malaria Control Program
Location: Monrovia, Liberia
Mission/Task: Data analysis?
● Editing the National Malaria Strategic Plan 2010-2015
●Writing sections of the malaria component of the Global
Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria proposal
●Developing a new Monitoring and evaluation survey to
capture post distribution outcomes
What I knew
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What I know now
Malaria is caused by plasmodium
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What national programs do
mosquitoes
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Major sponsors include GFATM,
PMI, various foreign governments
Chloroquine is a main treatment
drug
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Moving away from Chloroquine
with recorded resistant strains
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Progress in controlling malaria in
other countries (e.g. Ghana)
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The process of writing a technical
proposal
●Setting personal deadlines: doing various assignments
side-by-side
●Potential thesis topic: Efficient ways of channeling funds
to ensure a sustainable malaria control program
● Prof Kristina Graff and Derek Willis
● PEI
●NMCP-Liberia
●You