Malaria Working Group
Vision: The Malaria Working Group supports existing national collaborative partnerships and promotes new partnerships in which NGOs can actively be engaged in national level policy formation and innovative programming to scale up malaria prevention and control.
2008 Working Group Highlights
The Malaria Working Group hosted several technical updates over the last year on topics including: Strategies to improve access to artemisinin-based combination therapy for malaria; promoting use of insecticide-treated nets for malaria prevention; Save the Children's work in Mali on community-based distribution of ACTs, and Christian Children's Fund work in Senegal on a community-based malaria and tuberculosis control program.
Kenya Country Collaboration for Malaria Advocacy
The CORE Group malaria Secretariat, KeNAAM, developed a documentary that advocates for the deregulation of ACTs to increase accessibility at the community level, for the need for an independent budget for malaria, and for a reliable health management information system. The documentary highlights testimonies from the community and implementers on the success and challenges of malaria intervention progress in Kenya. The DVD was designed to expose gaps that need to be addressed by policy makers and is being disseminated to partners and stakeholders as an advocacy tool.
KeNAAM also conducted numerous additional advocacy efforts in order to engage policy makers and further break down policy barriers, including news articles, radio interviews, TV programs and letters to officials.
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Photo: Nigel Marsh/World Vision
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