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,…
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 reach those who have limited access to quality malaria…
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…
Alphonse Ubial Siteke is a communications professional with more than 25 years of experience across diverse, multicultural environments. Prior to coming to Chemonics, he served as a Communications Specialist for UNICEF in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Mali, and Gabon, as a Journalism Consultant for InterNews Europe, and as the head of the Communications…
Biographies for the moderator and seven panelists participating in the January 31, 2023, webinar “Extending Our Reach: Critical Actions to End Malaria.”
The USAID-funded End Malaria Project supports the National Malaria Control Program (NMCP) to achieve and sustain its goal of universal coverage of insecticide-treated nets (ITNs) through mass and school-based distribution campaigns in targeted provinces as determined by the NMCP and the U.S. President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI). The project strengthens the NMCP to effectively plan and…
USAID’s End Malaria Project supports the National Malaria Control Program (NMCP) in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to achieve and sustain its goal of universal coverage of ITNs through mass and school-based distribution campaigns in targeted provinces as determined by the NMCP and the U.S. President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI). The project will strengthen the…
The Mozambique Integrated Malaria Program (IMaP) is a five-year USAID-funded project implemented by Chemonics International that will contribute to reducing malaria mortality, morbidity, and parasitemia in four high malaria burden provinces (Cabo Delgado, Nampula, Tete, and Zambézia). IMaP will achieve this goal through three objectives: Support the implementation of proven malaria interventions at community and…