Improving the Quality of Malaria Prevention and Control Services
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19-30 May 2003
Kampala, Uganda

Application deadline: 28 February 2003

This course is designed to provide knowledge and skills to enable op-
erational personnel to implement high quality, state of the art ma-
laria prevention and control interventions and be able to develop a
process for the continuous improvement of the quality of these ac-
tivities by using existing or adaptations of existing tools. At the
end of the course participants should be able to plan for quality ma-
laria prevention and control activities and continuously monitor
their programs so that the quality of services being offered is im-
proved.

The goals for this course are:
* To orient participants to current global malaria prevention and
control strategies;
* To influence in a positive way the attitudes of participants to-
wards the benefits of high quality malaria control activities;
* To provide the participants with knowledge and skills to institute
a process of continuous improvement of the quality of services pro-
vided to prevent and control malaria;
* To provide participants with knowledge and skills to monitor the
quality of their interventions.

Course Faculty:
Faculty from RCQHC, Makerere University Medical School, Institute of
Public Health, Ministry of Health Uganda, CDC/Uganda, WHO/Uganda will
facilitate this course.

Participants:
This course is designed for twenty senior and middle level managers
who are interested in improving the quality of their malaria preven-
tion and control activities and who would implement what they have
learned upon their return to their countries. They may come from gov-
ernment, NGO or private sectors and may be responsible for these ac-
tivities at national, regional, district, program or institutional
levels

Certification:
Regional Center for Quality of Health Care, Institute of Public
Health, Makerere University, will award a certificate of attendance.
Participant evaluation will be based on class participation, written
knowledge assessments and fieldwork

Venue: Windsor Lake Victoria Hotel, Entebbe, Uganda

Costs: The tuition fee for this course is 920 US$. Accommodation,
food and incidentals are estimated at 120 US$ per day.

Deadline for submission of applications: February 28, 2003

Contact the following person for details and the application forma
and to find out about sponsorship:
Ms. Sheila Magero (Program Coordinator)
Regional Centre for Quality of Health Care
P.O. Box 7072 Kampala, Uganda
Tel: +256-41-530888/533768
Fax: +256-41-530876
mailto:[email protected] [2]
or
mailto:[email protected] [3]