Exploration and Production projects can potentially create adverse health impacts for workers and surrounding communities unless appropriate malaria control programs are designed, implemented and monitored on an ongoing basis. These company based control programs often contain measures that often are not evidence-based and that may actually impair community malaria control efforts.

This paper will present strategies and tools for use in developing effective malaria prevention and control programs through reviewing the current literature regarding:

  • Malaria education

  • Bite prevention and vector control

  • Chemoprophylaxis

  • Diagnosis and treatment

These strategies can result in cost effective mitigation of potential adverse health impacts by implementing scientifically based programs developed for the specific malaria risk in the defined geographic area.

Keywords:
protection, vector control, somalia, society of petroleum engineers, malaria, diagnosis, application, infection, prevention, infectious disease
Subjects:
Health, Infectious diseases (HIV/AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis)
Copyright 2005, Society of Petroleum Engineers
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