Policies, strategies and implementation

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The changing environment in malaria control in the last couple of years arising from high level  advocacy, increased financial resources from partners, the availability of new tools such as Long lasting Insecticides Treated nets (LLINs), Rapid Diagnosis Test (RDTs) and the Artemisinin-based Combination Therapy (ACT) has led to an increased interest in WHO guidance to countries to develop and implement appropriate policies and strategies.

The main role of the malaria program in the African region is:

  • To provide to Member States guidelines on policies, strategies and other relevant tools in order to scale up quality and evidence based malaria prevention and control intervention towards the disease elimination.
  • To support countries to develop strategic plans and technical documents for program implementation in order to address their countries specificities.
  • To support countries to design their National Malaria Control Program and strengthen their human resource capacity to address the bottleneck undermining program implementation

The main achievement includes:

  • Development and adoption of the malaria control strategies in the African region
  • Adoption of resolution by the Regional committee engaging Member States to scale up malaria prevention and control efforts
  • Development of guidelines for strategic planning, community based interventions, malaria treatment, monitoring and evaluation
  • Development of training materials and organization of international malaria courses for several generations of medical doctors