Posts

Why Malaria Matchbox?

Image
  Shedding light, matching needs to responses and igniting action.  A matchbox ignites a process that starts by shedding light on the object that we want to see in detail. A toolbox gives us resources that can improve outcomes, by matching the needs with appropriated solution. The term Malaria Matchbox was, therefore, created to illustrate the idea of tool that can shed light on the different types of barriers that people face to access and utilize healthcare service s, particularly those related to malaria prevention and care. Identifying those barriers - being them sociocultural, financial, physical or related to gender norms - is an essential step to match people’s specific needs to responses that are person-centred, rights based and gender responsive . Finally, we hope that by encouraging learning and collaboration among relevant country stakeholders, the Malaria Matchbox will also ignite a more effective integrated and multi-sector action towards the global agenda to en...
Post a Comment
Read more

An equity assessment tool to improve the effectiveness of malaria programs.

Image
Get the  Malaria Matchbox Tool .
Post a Comment
Read more

An integrated, equitable and people-centred approach to end malaria.

Image
Health equity should be pursued not only as a moral imperative of social justice, but as a practical measure to support progress towards achieving the global health targets set under SDG3. Achieving equity in health programming, will require a comprehensive healthcare approach including assessing and breaking down populations’ barriers to timely access to necessary healthcare services. In the context of malaria, this includes quality, timely, and affordable prevention, diagnosis, and treatment services for affected populations . The fight against malaria is one of the biggest public health successes of the 21st century. Global malaria death rates have decreased by 60 percent since 2000 – translating to millions of lives saved. However, after an unprecedented period of success, progress in malaria control has stalled. The World Malaria Report 2018 estimates that there were 219 million cases of malaria in 2017. The 10 highest burden African countries saw an estimated 3.5 million more m...
Post a Comment
Read more

Equity as a prerequisite to achieving Universal health coverage.

Image
The Malaria Matchbox is an assessment toolkit designed to ignite equity in malaria programs, by correlating data on populations’ acc ess and utilization of healthcare services with countries’ malaria programming across the continuum from control to elimination. Through ensuring consideration of the root causes of health inequities across different contexts, populations and groups of individuals and contributing to developing malaria programming plans , the toolkit aims to contribute to the ambitious global health targets set under SDG3, which call on the international community to ensure healthy lives and promote wellbeing for all at all ages, and in all settings, including humanitarian and fragile (4). This will ensure that no one is left behind, irrespective of who and where they are. Achieving the SDG sub-goals of reducing maternal, newborn and infant mortality (3.1 and 3.2), as well as ending HIV, TB, malaria and neglected tropical diseases (3.3) (5) requires a continued politic...
Post a Comment
Read more

Improve the capacity of malaria programs to make services available, accessible and acceptable for all individuals at risk of malaria.

Image
  In May 2019, the World Health Assembly called for accelerated progress towards Universal Health Coverage , with a focus on poor, vulnerable and marginalized in society. It is an admirable ambition, but an impossible one unless we tackle the resurgent threat of malaria. Malaria claims the lives of more than 400,000 people each year, largely in Africa . After an unprecedent period of success between 2000 and 2016, when more than 7 million lives were saved, progress against malaria has stalled. High-burden countries have seen an increase in the number of malaria cases. Children under the age of five, pregnant women, refugees and populations affected by conflicts and natural disasters are at higher risk. Getting back on-track in the fight against malaria requires a greater emphasis on the specific country contexts where malaria programs are deployed and on the characteristics of different population groups in need of healthcare services, in order to leave no one behind. It means un...
Post a Comment
Read more