Long-lasting insecticidal nets

Multicountry collaboration to reach universal coverage

In April 2009, national malaria control program staff from six African countries attended a workshop on scaling up long-lasting insecticidal nets (LLINs). Workshop participants had a range of different experiences in LLIN scale-up, enabling countries to benefit from each other's knowledge and lessons learned. Reorganized into multicountry working groups, participants from Ethiopia, Malawi, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe discussed strategies for attaining universal coverage based on country context, available resources, and experience.

The workshop was sponsored by the MACEPA Learning Community with support from the Alliance for Malaria Prevention (AMP) and focused on LLIN distribution logistics and planning, financing, monitoring and evaluation, and communications for distribution campaigns. Similar trainings have been organized by AMP for Nigeria, francophone Africa and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and various non-governmental organizations.

Bringing countries together to fight malaria

In this two-minute video, participants from Ethiopia and Zimbabwe discuss how multicountry training workshops foster regional collaboration that is critical to successful malaria control.

Photo by Laura Newman.
Video produced by Amber Smith, Godfrey Chimbelu, and PATH.