In October 2021, we celebrated the most significant breakthrough in three decades of malaria research: the World Health Organization (WHO) recommended RTS,S/AS01 (RTS,S or Mosquirix), the first vaccine endorsed for prevention of malaria in children and infants. So far, the vaccine has protected more than 1.2 million children under two in Ghana, Kenya, and Malawi…
In malaria-endemic countries, timely and accurate malaria diagnosis is essential for effective case management. To strengthen laboratory services and malaria diagnosis, the Mozambique Integrated Malaria Program (IMaP), a five-year USAID-funded project led by Chemonics International Inc., implemented a variety of capacity building activities.
In malaria-endemic countries, fever is by far the most common reason for visits to health facilities. In Mozambique, malaria remains the most important public health problem. In collaboration with Mozambique’s National Malaria Control Program and its other development and technical partners, Chemonics International led the USAID Integrated Malaria Program (IMaP). The program worked at the…
Limited use of data for decision-making has been one of the barriers to reducing malaria morbidity, mortality, and parasitemia in Mozambique. The USAID Mozambique Integrated Malaria Program (IMaP) has bolstered the capacity of provincial and district stakeholders and improved data quality, data use, facility supervision, and malaria outcomes.
Remy Ngoy is an IT Specialist who oversees campaign digitalization activities for USAID’s End Malaria Project in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where he also acts as a Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist. Previously, Remy was the Monitoring and Evaluation and IT Assistant for the ACCELERE 1 Project. He also worked on the TCE-Tongo-Nzoto Project, focusing…
Strengthening the quality of services, data, and disease surveillance systems — digital health — is key to achieving universal health coverage and health equity. In countries such the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), poor infrastructure and limited access to communication systems complicate progress on digital health and necessitates extra measures. This is why, in…
We know how to end malaria. With the right tools, we can end the disease in a generation. But to do this we must ensure that the people in regions of the world that are prone to malaria infections have access to information and interventions proven over the last two decades to reduce a disease…
Reaching every individual with comprehensive, high-quality malaria services is complex. How do we ensure that we leave no one behind? We asked community health workers and malaria leaders from Chemonics, Malaria Consortium, the RBM Partnership to End Malaria, and the U.S. President’s Malaria Initiative in this webinar. Biographies of moderator and panelists Moderator: Judith Heichelheim,…
This post originally appeared in The Frontline Health Workers Coalition. To end malaria, no one can be left behind. However, despite great strides in reducing malaria incidence and deaths, some populations remain unreached. Trained community health workers, because of where they live and the trust people have in them, are one of the best cadres to…
When floods hit the central Nigerian city of Makurdi during the recent rainy season, Margaret Beetsel knew her work as a community health worker would be more difficult, but not impossible. So, she climbed into a canoe and made her rounds, delivering medicine to eligible children to help prevent severe, and often deadly, malaria. Beetsel,…
For years, Marthe Ilunga relied on insecticides and nightly mosquito hunting to keep her children from coming down with malaria in her home in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). But success was limited: two of her three children had recurrent fevers, requiring Marthe to regularly seek care for them at the Dilala Health Center…