Policy & Resources
Research
Malaria can be prevented and treated through a comprehensive approach that involves long-lasting insecticide-treated bed nets, eliminating mosquito breeding areas, selective indoor residual spraying, medicines for treatment, and education.
Results From the Field
WHO Report on Ethiopia and Rwanda January 2008 – showing significant reductions in malaria incidence and deaths in Ethiopia and Rwanda, with lower impact in Zambia and Ghana due to lower coverage levels.
Lancet article on Kenya results, September 2007 – After massive scale-up of bed nets in Kenya (from 7% to 67%) saw 44% reduction in deaths among children.
PLOS Medicine article on results in Zanzibar, November 2007 – Scale-up of ACTs and ITNs produced 75% reduction in under 5 mortality and 77% reduction in admissions.
PMI Annual Report, March 2008– shows progress to date from President’s Malaria Initaitive including 6 million nets, 17 million people protected with spraying, 12 million ACTs, 29,000 heatlh workers trained, 1.3 million doses preventative treatment during pregnancy.
Ethiopia Backgrounder – quick overview of Ethiopia story (written by MNM)
Funding and Impact
McKinsey Business Case for Scale-up (150KB PDF), January 2008 - $2.2 billion a year is needed to provide full coverage of malaria control measures in the 30 hardest-hit malaria-endemic countries. Over five years would save 3.5 million lives, prevent 672 million cases, free up 427,000 hospital beds and produce tens of billions in economic impact.
WHO Global Cost Estimate (294KB PDF) - $4.2 billion needed annually to achieve 80% coverage in 81 hardest hit countries.
Background on Global Fund Round 7 – $470 million in new funding, far and away the biggest round to date. Includes results of past rounds.
Planning Ending Deaths and Eradication
DFID piece on Prospects for Eradication and Elimination, December 2007 – Written in the immediate aftermath of the Gates Forum, this report (to guide UK government spending) is the most thorough and thoughtful discussion of rapid scale up and eradication.
Lancet article on call to End Malaria Deaths, April 2008 – Written by Minister Tedros, UN Special Envoy for Malaria Ray Chambers, and Global Fund Chairman Rajat Gupta, this article explores Ethiopia success as basis for continent-wide scale-up.
Lancet piece on Global Malaria Strategy, March 2008 – Global Fund founder Richard Feachem and Oliver Sabot of the Clinton Foundation argue for a three-phased approach from rapid scale-up to eradication.
Cover the Bed Net Gap, April 2008 – one page overview of Roll Back Malaria's campaign to rally partners to Cover the Bed Net Gap in Africa by 2010. Includes discussion of nets available and needed (119,000,000 gap currently).
Statements by Global Health Leaders
Ban Ki-moon Op-Ed in the Guardian, April 2008 - challenging world to end deaths from malaria as quickly as possible.
Ban Ki-moon Press release, April 2008 – lays out call to action and universal coverage target.
WHO Dr. Chan Remarks Jan 2008 – In her remarks to the WHO Exec Board, Dr. Chan explains why she shares in the growing optimism about malaria and how short term efforts to end deaths lays the groundwork for eventual eradication.
Remarks By Jeff Sachs at UN Event, April 2008 – Jeff Sachs calls ending malaria deaths the equivalent of Kennedy’s call to put a man on the moon.
President Kikwete Response, April 2008 – A response by President Kikwete of Tanzania to Secretary-General call on behalf of the African Union
Links
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
www.cdc.gov/malaria/faq.htm
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
www.theglobalfund.org/en/about/malaria/
Measles Initiative
www.measlesinitiative.org/news.asp
National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Disease
www3.niaid.nih.gov
The President's Malaria Initiative
www.fightingmalaria.gov
PRI's The World - The Forgotten Plague: Malaria
www.theworld.org/?q=node/4288
Roll Back Malaria Partnership
www.rollbackmalaria.org
UNICEF
www.unicef.org/health/index_malaria.htm
UNICEF Video: The significance of Africa Malaria Day and the state of the effort to roll back malaria
www.unicef.org/infobycountry/malawi_33583.html
World Health Organization
www.who.int/topics/malaria/en/
World Malaria Report 2005 by UNICEF and WHO
www.rbm.who.int/wmr2005/