title: Description of the CCAP Synod of Livingstonia and Synod of Nkhoma Congregational-Based Malaria Prevention Program.
abstract: In 1999, the Church of Central Africa, Presbyterian (CCAP) Synod of Livingstonia (SoL) began a pilot malaria prevention program using women from the congregation as health educators within their localities. One congregation was within Mzuzu and one at Bandawe. The women sold insecticide-treated bed nets and provided early treatment education to all people within the catchment area of their congregations. Nets and education are provided to all people, now only CCAP members. These two programs were successfull and other congregations began asking for training and resources to initiate their own congregational-based malaria prevention programs.