Shrinking the Malaria Map: A Guide on Malaria Elimination for Policy Makers
The purpose of the Guide on Malaria Elimination for Policy Makers is to provide guidance and high-level technical insight to leaders in governments that are considering or have embarked upon a national or regional strategy of malaria elimination, and to the donors and partners who support them. It is a policy digest of the Prospectus on Malaria Elimination.
The Guide considers the question of whether and when to embark on malaria elimination, considering technical, operational and financial feasibility. It then reviews the two-stage process of reducing local malaria transmission to zero and then maintaining it. The Guide describes the relationships between health systems strengthening and the value of engaging non-governmental health care providers and outsourcing malaria elimination functions, stresses the need for engagement and participation of the community, as well as for regional, multi-country and cross-border collaborations.
- Tool Designer Organization:
- Sir Richard Feachem and The Malaria Elimination Group (MEG)
- Download:
- The tool from MEG web site
- Contacts:
- Allison Philips
Summary of main features
- Purpose
- To provide guidance and technical insight for leaders in governments considering or having embarked on malaria elimination
- Scope of interventions
- Malaria elimination
- Limitations
- Although primarily directed at the programs who have embarked on malaria elimination (either nationally or sub-nationally), this guide will also be useful to countries currently engaged in sustained malaria control with a view on elimination.
- Output
- National strategic plan for eliminating malaria
- Time frame
- When considering or embarked on malaria elimination
- Potential users
- Program managers, policymakers, government leaders
- Skills required
- No specific skills, except some knowledge of malaria epidemiology and of the impact of malaria interventions
- Type of software
- Adobe PDF
- User manual available?
- NA
- Type and length of training required
- NA
- Available languages
- English, French, Portuguese and Mandarin.
- Country applications
- National strategic planning for elimination of malaria
- Last update and version
- April 2009