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Malaria Consortium's top moments of 2016
At Malaria Consortium we continued to work towards achieving our mission throughout 2016. With the support of our donors, partners and collaborators, we helped to improve lives in Africa and Asia through sustainable, evidence-based programmes that combat targeted diseases and promote child and maternal health. See below for a few of our highlights of 2016. |
6.4 million children receive seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC) |
 | | We continued to transform the malaria landscape in the Sahel
through our ACCESS-SMC project that administers seasonal malaria
chemoprevention.
Funded by UNITAID, ACCESS-SMC treated approximately 6.4
million children during the 2016 campaign, including 88 percent of children
under five years old.
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See our animated video: Introducing seasonal malaria chemoprevention |
Transforming Nigeria's health sector |
The Department for International Development funded ‘Support
to National Malaria Programme’ or SuNMaP concluded in 2016. This ground
breaking eight-year project, led by Malaria Consortium, took an innovative approach to strengthening the country’s management of malaria at both state and
federal level, harmonising intervention efforts and vastly improving demand for
and access to malaria services. In addition, the project delivered millions of
nets and has already saved an estimated 48,000 lives, which would have been
lost to malaria.
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See our video: SuNMaP - Transforming Nigeria's health sector |
Malaria Consortium placed as a top GiveWell charity |
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Malaria Consortium was selected as a GiveWell
top recommended charity for our expertise in delivering seasonal malaria
chemoprevention (SMC). GiveWell is a world-renowned meta-NGO that recommends
charities by assessing them on four criteria: effectiveness,
cost-effectiveness, transparency, and room for more funding. |
New innovations in the fight against dengue and malaria |
We continued to develop and deliver innovative approaches to
disease control in 2016. Most notably, our integrated
vector management project, which uses larvae-eating guppy fish to reduce
mosquito populations, was successful in reducing potentially dengue-carrying mosquito rates by 46 percent in Cambodia’s high risk areas. The project
received wide
spread recognition for being cost effective, sustainable and easy to
implement, making it a suitable intervention for scale up.
In Myanmar, Malaria Consortium established an insecticide-treated clothing (ITC) project to determine the acceptability of ITC for
malaria prevention among the key risk groups at the community level, such as rubber tappers. It was the first time this research had been conducted at the
community level. Results showed that ITC was easy to use, durable, reduced
mosquito bites and also has the potential for scale up. | |  |
See our video: Dengue solutions in Cambodia |
2016 World Malaria Report |
 | | Malaria Consortium supported the launch of The World Health
Organization’s annual World
Malaria Report in the UK at an event co-organised with Malaria No More UK,
the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Malaria and Neglected Tropical Diseases, and
other leading malaria NGOs. The report contained a range of achievements and
detailed the progress made towards achieving the 2030 Sustainable Development
Goals. These included a five-fold increase in the recommended three or more
doses of preventive treatment for pregnant women and an 80 percent increase in
the use of long-lasting insecticidal mosquito nets for all populations at risk
of malaria. At the report launch, the UK’s International Development
Secretary, Priti Patel, reiterated the UK’s commitment to end malaria and announced an additional £75 million investment to support the development of
antimalarial drugs and insecticides. |
See the WHO's video: Global malaria progress and challenges in 2016 |
We look forward to
continuing to work with all of our partners and donors throughout 2017 to
improve lives and progress towards achieving the 2030 Sustainable Development
Goals. |
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