he National Department of Health (NDOH) presents this Malaria Elimination Strategic Plan 2019-2023 for the Republic of South Africa. The strategy comes at an important time as the Southern African Development Community (SADC) heads of state have recently renewed the commitment to eliminate malari ... a in Botswana, Eswatini, Namibia and South Africa by 2020 and in the whole SADC region by 2030, with the target of zero local malaria cases and deaths. South Africa has made steady progress towards this elimination goal through the implementation of evidence-based malaria policies aligned to the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Global Technical Strategy. more

Adapted from: Standard Treatment Guidelines and Essential Medicine List PHC. The syndromic approach to Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs) diagnosis and management is to treat the signs or symptoms (syndrome) of a group of diseases rather than treating a specific disease. This allows for the tr ... eatment of one or more conditions that often occur at the same time and has been accepted as the management of choice. more