RECENT ANNOUNCEMENTS

MACEPA celebrates World Malaria Day
Friday, April 25 was the first World Malaria Day, commemorating the global effort to control malaria and reduce the toll it takes on individuals, families, and economies in endemic countries. MACEPA Advocacy Officer Todd Jennings blogged from Zambia throughout the week about national leadership in malaria control and covering local, national, and regional activities. You can read Todd’s daily reflections and see photos and video footage on PATH’s website. Todd also posted his thoughts on the ONE campaign blog.

Roll Back Malaria Partners around the world observed World Malaria Day in a number of creative ways. Find out more on the World Malaria Day website.

 

Special journal supplement on malaria
The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene has created a special supplement to raise awareness of the continued need for funding and research to combat malaria. Access the collection of articles.

Ethiopia completes malaria indicator survey
On January 1, Ethiopia’s Ministry of Health, in partnership with its Central Statistics Agency, WHO, UNICEF, MACEPA, The Carter Center, the US President’s Malaria Initiative, and others, completed its first national-scale malaria indicator survey (MIS) using tools and methods developed by the Roll Back Malaria Partnership’s Monitoring and Evaluation Reference Group and tested in Zambia's 2006 MIS. Results will provide information on the national malaria burden and intervention coverage, and will allow Ethiopia to measure the impact of its ongoing malaria intervention scale-up efforts.

New resources in French and Portuguese!
MACEPA documents have now been translated into French and Portuguese! Please see the Online Resources page for links.

Roll Back Malaria Board meets in Ethiopia
Members of the Roll Back Malaria Partnership Board, representing the malaria community worldwide, met in Addis Ababa November 28 and 29, 2007, to endorse approaches to escalate malaria prevention, treatment, and care and to achieve high-level coverage with malaria control interventions. Read more about the meeting.

SADC Malaria Week marks launch of new RBM regional network
On November 23, 2007, health ministers from the Southern African Development Community (SADC) gathered in Zimbabwe to commemorate SADC Malaria Week and launch the Southern Africa Roll Back Malaria Network (SARN), which will be hosted by SADC and is the first RBM network linked to a regional economic block. Read more about SADC Malaria Week on the Kaiser Network.

Malaria Consortium Innovation Grants for malaria advocacy
The Malaria Consortium has issued its first round of three Innovation Grants to boost advocacy efforts by civil society organizations in Africa. Applications for the second round of grants were due December 10, 2007. Read more about these grants.

Global Fund announces Round 7 malaria grants
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has approved 28 new malaria grants in its seventh round of funding, which will contribute US$471 million to malaria control programs over the next two years. Sixty-two percent of the malaria applications were approved, the highest success rate ever. Read more about the Round 7 Global Fund grants.

New resources on using GIS for IRS
In 2007, Zambia’s National Malaria Control Centre (NMCC) used geographic information systems (GIS) to enumerate households and strengthen the information used to plan and implement indoor residual spraying (IRS) activities in targeted districts. Read more about this groundbreaking work on the NMCC website.

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation convenes Malaria Forum
On October 16, 2007, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation launched a three-day Malaria Forum in Seattle, Washington (USA). The event brought together representatives of organizations receiving malaria grants from the foundation, along with key foundation leadership and other global partners for a cross-disciplinary discussion of the issues most critical to the malaria community. Read more about the Malaria Forum on the Gates Foundation website or read a Malaria No More blog about the Forum on the ONE Campaign website.

RBM News
Read the latest articles on malaria compiled from the world’s press by Roll Back Malaria.

Report from UNICEF and Roll Back Malaria highlights progress
A report just released, "Malaria and Children," chronicles remarkable progress across most sub-Saharan African countries in scaling up malaria prevention and control interventions. The report, which presents data obtained from the most recently conducted national surveys, shows that coverage of the major interventions has increased significantly, and nearly all countries now promote the use of artemisinin-based combination therapies. Read the report on malaria.