WHO WE ARE

A committed partner in malaria control

The Malaria Control and Evaluation Partnership in Africa (MACEPA, a program at PATH) was launched in 2005 to work with the government of Zambia and its Roll Back Malaria (RBM) partners to accelerate national malaria prevention and control efforts and bring about rapid, significant impact on related health and economic indicators.

At the global and regional level, MACEPA collaborates with RBM and its networks and working groups and with program funders to inform the global agenda for malaria control and to strengthen the global malaria advocacy platform. Funding partners include the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria; the World Bank through the Global Strategy and Booster Program; and the US Agency for International Development and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention through the US President’s Malaria Initiative.

In 2006, with a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, PATH, an international nongovernmental agency, initiated the design and start-up of the MACEPA Learning Community. The Learning Community, based in Lusaka, Zambia, began engaging countries in 2007 to advance the scale-up of malaria control and prevention.

Roll Back Malaria Partnership

To provide a coordinated global approach to fighting malaria, the Roll Back Malaria (RBM) Partnership was launched in 1998 by the World Health Organization, the United Nations Children's Fund , the United Nations Development Programme and the World Bank. The RBM Partnership is now made up of a wide range of partners including malaria-endemic countries, their bilateral and multilateral development partners, the private sector, nongovernmental and community-based organizations, foundations, and research and academic institutions, who bring a formidable assembly of expertise, infrastructure, and funds into the fight against the disease. The RBM Partnership is pleased to be part of the MACEPA Learning Community. Visit the RBM Partnership website.

Photo (top) by PATH/Mike Wang.