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Roll Back Malaria: Strengthening WHO/PVO Partnerships
Presenter: Nelle Temple Brown, External Relations Officer, (WHO).

The Roll Back Malaria (RBM) partnership, founded in 1998 by WHO, UNICEF, the World Bank, and UNDP, has the objective of halving the malaria burden worldwide by the year 2010. Over 300 million cases of malaria are estimated each year, resulting in a million deaths. Ninety percent of these deaths occur in sub-Saharan Africa and most of these victims are children under five years old. Pregnant women are also especially vulnerable. Malaria compounds poverty and impedes economic development.

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RBM: Strengthening WHO/PVO Partnerships: Nelle Temple Brown (WHO)

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The RBM partnership aims to take effective action against malaria by focusing on:

• Providing prompt access to effective treatment,
• Preventing and controlling malaria during pregnancy,
• Promoting the use of insecticide-treated mosquito nets as a means of prevention, and
• Dealing effectively with malaria in emergencies and epidemic situations.

The RBM Secretariat at WHO has been engaged in a number of activities, including development and provision of technical advice and guidance to malaria endemic countries, development of effective partnerships at the global and country level, mobilization of commitment and support for scaling up implementation to achieve malaria control targets, and monitoring and evaluation of RBM actions at all levels.

RBM’s next phase is being planned, with input from an external evaluation, with an eye to expanding and strengthening partnerships, and the development of well-coordinated mechanisms for scaling up malaria activities at country levels.

In the context of new funding opportunities available from the Global Fund for Fighting AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria whose first grants will be announced on April 24th, effective country mechanisms will contribute to significant progress in achieving national malaria control objectives.

NGOs are already valuable contributors to existing efforts to roll back malaria at all levels and in various contexts, including in research and training efforts, work at the national and community level in bednet promotion, malaria treatment as part of IMCI and maternal health programs, and in controlling malaria during complex emergencies. Ways to build even closer NGO involvement with RBM, including the possibility of more formalized linkages, are being explored as part of the next phase of RBM’s governance.

For more information, refer to the Roll Back Malaria Website: www.rbm.who.int/

Dr. Nelle Temple Brown has been the External Relations Officer of the World Health Organization in Washington, D.C. since 1994. She represents in Washington the Geneva-based headquarters of WHO and the five WHO regional offices serving Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Eastern Mediterranean.

WHO is the technical specialized agency of the United Nations system responsible for health matters.

Immediately prior to joining WHO, Dr Brown served on the staff of the U.S. Congress for nine years, principally working on legislation relating to international bilateral and multilateral aid, health, and liability issues.

Dr Brown has a Ph.D. from MIT in Political Science and a B.A. from Smith College in Economics. She has taught at the University of Maine, served as Special Assistant to Mrs. Katharine Graham of The Washington Post for Chancellor Willy Brandt’s International Commission on International Development Issues, was Assistant Representative of The Asia Foundation in Thailand, and has also been a consultant to a number of U.S. Government and U.N. agencies, businesses, and voluntary organizations.