Malaria and health systems
Ongoing health sector reforms and an increased focus on poverty reduction in low income countries has changed the way malaria control services are financed, managed and delivered. Malaria control is increasingly being planned and delivered in the context of sector-wide approaches (SWAps). This involves delivering malaria services alongside other essential health interventions. These adjustments have generally been beneficial, resulting in more strategic and inclusive planning, better financial control and improved stakeholder involvement across sectors.
The Roll Back Malaria (RBM) partnership, launched by the World Health Organization, UNICEF, UNDP, and World Bank, provides a coordinated global approach to fighting malaria. RBM emphasises public-private partnerships and community initiatives to prevent and treat malaria, with innovations such as social marketing of insecticide-treated nets, home-based care and management of mosquito nets with insecticides.
RBM and other initiatives to increase funding for malaria will however be wasted unless there is a dramatic, systematic and concerted effort to develop human capacity in low income countries.
The Roll Back Malaria (RBM) partnership, launched by the World Health Organization, UNICEF, UNDP, and World Bank, provides a coordinated global approach to fighting malaria. RBM emphasises public-private partnerships and community initiatives to prevent and treat malaria, with innovations such as social marketing of insecticide-treated nets, home-based care and management of mosquito nets with insecticides.
RBM and other initiatives to increase funding for malaria will however be wasted unless there is a dramatic, systematic and concerted effort to develop human capacity in low income countries.
- Financing mechanisms for malaria
- This report, by the United Kingdom All Party Parliamentary Malaria Group, examines alternative methods of financing the prevention and treatment of malaria. Financial resources devoted to malaria control from international donors have grown dramatically; despite this, there remains a large finance gap that needs to be filled.
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Recommended reading
- Roll Back Malaria: a failing global health campaign
- ( G. Yamey / British Medical Journal , 2004)
- Roll Back Malaria was launched in 1998 bringing together multilateral, bilateral, nongovernmental, and private organisations. Its aim was to halve the deaths from malaria by 2010. However, World Hea...
- Addressing malaria sector-wide: improving co-ordination and management of external support
- ( M. Starling / Malaria Consortium , 2001)
- Recommended reading
- This document was prepared as a background paper on key issues for the fourth Roll Back Malaria (RBM) Global Partners meeting in Washington in April 2001. Produced by the Malaria Consortium, the paper...
- Partnerships for malaria control: engaging the formal and informal private sectors
- ( HLSP Institute, UK , 2006)
- Recommended reading
- This review, conducted by the HLSP institute, examines the role of the private sector in malaria control. The private sector comprises all providers who exist outside the public sector whether their a...
Latest Additions
- Training medicine-sellers improves malaria treatment in sub-Saharan Africa
- ( C. Goodman;W. Brieger;A. Unwin / American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene , 2007)
- This report from the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene reviews the literature on medicine-sellers in sub-Saharan Africa, and assesses interventions to improve their malaria-related pra...
- Investigating ways to improve the regulation and delivery of malaria treatment
- ( Oladepo O.;K. K. Salami;B. W. Adeoye / Future Health Systems research consortium , 2007)
- Despite the large burden of malaria in Nigeria, many people do not obtain appropriate treatment for the disease and depend on informal private providers for anti-malarial drugs (AMDs), largely through...
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