Malaria in Pregnancy Resource Package
The "Malaria in Pregnancy Resource Package" contains a variety of tools designed to assist policymakers, public health professionals and health managers in implementing programs that will reduce the incidence of malaria in pregnancy (MRP) and provide effective treatment for pregnant women with malaria. The package includes, among other elements, training resources, program planning guides, information, education, and communication/behaviour change communication (IEC/BCC) resources, and key article abstracts.
This package was developed by JHPIEGO with the Ministry of Health of Kenya, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and WHO.
- Tool Designer Organization:
- JHPIEGO
- View:
- MRP tool from JHPIEGO website
- Contacts:
- Dr William Brieger, Aimee Dickerson
Summary of main features
- Purpose
- Help implement programs that will reduce malaria in pregnancy and provide effective treatment for pregnant women with malaria
- Scope of interventions
- LLIN, IRS, IPTp, and case management (diagnosis and treatment)
- Limitations
- Pregnant women and unborn babies: focus on antenatal care and health education about malaria
- Output
- Better program and clinical information to reduce malaria in pregnancy and provide effective treatment for pregnant women with malaria, in particular when planning PMI MOPs and Global Fund proposals
- Time frame
- Potential users
- Policymakers, public health professionals, and managers from countries that are planning their PMI MOPs and Global Fund Proposals
- Skills required
- Type of software
- Web-based files in Adobe Acrobat and Articulate
- User manual available?
- User manual and workshop material available
- Type and length of training required
- Available languages
- English and French. A Portuguese version will be available soon.
- Country applications
- Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia
- Last update and version
- June 2008