Assessment of a targeted approach to preventing malaria in the oil and gas industry

Following the death from malaria of four of its expatriate employees while they were in nonmalarious countries, an oilfield service company developed a targeted, multicomponent malaria-prevention program. The program comprises two levels of malaria training, malaria arrival and departure quizzes, a malaria hot line, and a curative malaria kit (CMK). The cornerstone of the program is the CMK, which contains a diagnostic test that employees can use to diagnose malaria in minutes and standby (emergency) curative medication.