TABLE 3.

Participants’ reasons for believing the country will not eliminate malaria by 2018 (multiple responses were allowed).

Responses	n = 26	%
Malaria cases are still very high	2	7.7
Intervention tools used to control malaria have not changed	6	23.1
Malaria elimination is not supported by research evidence	4	15.4
Not all role players are involved in malaria elimination
programme	9	34.6
There is not enough budget to implement malaria elimination	2	7.7
Cross-border initiatives are lacking and borders are porous
resulting in high importation of cases	9	34.6
There is not enough skills to implement malaria elimination	2	7.7
Other	5	19.2

Source: Authors’ own work. Generated from the study data