NCCPHP collaborates with UNC Department of Epi to reduce malaria in Thailand

...	NCCPHP Assistant Director Jen Horney (far left) visits a rubber plantation with public health officials from the Trat Provincal Health Department.

NCCPHP Assistant Director Jen Horney visited Thailand in mid-June to collaborate on a project to reduce malaria infection. NCCPHP is working in partnership with faculty in the Department of Epidemiology to set up a study of the use of insecticide impregnated clothing for workers in rubber plantations in Trat Province.

The workers are at high risk of contracting malaria because they work through the night and until dawn, a high risk time for being bitten by the mosquitos that are the vector for malaria. Trat Province is on the border between Thailand and Cambodia, about 200 kilometers southeast of Bangkok.

 

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