Empower communities: Engage and resource communities as protagonists in their own health, everyone has a role to play.World Malaria Day 2026 Communication materials: Get the Social Media Toolkit!
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...
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...
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