Resource Library

Results From the Field

Marked Increase in Child Survival after Four Years of Intensive Malaria Control
A recent study surveying the success of the malaria intervention program in Bioko Island, Equatorial Guinea and the ancillary benefits for overall child survival. Read the study...

WHO Report on Ethiopia and Rwanda January 2008 – showing significant reductions in malaria incidence and deaths in Ethiopia and Rwanda, with lower impact in Zambia and Ghana due to lower coverage levels.

PMI Annual Report, April 2009– shows progress to date from President’s Malaria Initaitive.  In 2008, PMI procured more than 6.4 million long-lasting ITNs for free distribution to pregnant women and young children and a total of 15.6 million ACT treatments. Indoor residual spraying activities covered 6 million houses and protected nearly 25 million people at risk of malaria.  These facts come from the Executive Summary and the Full Annual Report.

The 2009 Data Report from ONE and Executive Report- This report tracks the progress of G8 countries and their fulfillment of the commitments they made nearly ten years ago in regards to defeating extreme poverty, disease and encourage good governance.  There has been much progress made in reaching these commitments, but some countries still lag behind.

Funding and Impact

McKinsey Business Case for Scale-up (150KB PDF), January 2008 - $2.2 billion a year is needed to provide full coverage of malaria control measures in the 30 hardest-hit malaria-endemic countries. Over five years would save 3.5 million lives, prevent 672 million cases, free up 427,000 hospital beds and produce tens of billions in economic impact.

WHO Global Cost Estimate (294KB PDF) - $4.2 billion needed annually to achieve 80% coverage in 81 hardest hit countries.

Planning Ending Deaths and Eradication

DFID piece on Prospects for Eradication and Elimination, December 2007 – Written in the immediate aftermath of the Gates Forum, this report (to guide UK government spending) is the most thorough and thoughtful discussion of rapid scale up and eradication.

Lancet article on call to End Malaria Deaths, April 2008 – Written by Minister Tedros, UN Special Envoy for Malaria Ray Chambers, and Global Fund Chairman Rajat Gupta, this article explores Ethiopia success as basis for continent-wide scale-up.

Lancet piece on Global Malaria Strategy, March 2008 – Global Fund founder Richard Feachem and Oliver Sabot of the Clinton Foundation argue for a three-phased approach from rapid scale-up to eradication.

Cover the Bed Net Gap, April 2008 – one page overview of Roll Back Malaria's campaign to rally partners to Cover the Bed Net Gap in Africa by 2010. Includes discussion of nets available and needed (119,000,000 gap currently).

Short Overview of Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria's Funding decisions- Round by Round analysis of resource allocation and project details from the Global Fund

Global Health Leaders on Malaria: In Their Own Words

Ban Ki-moon Statement, April 2008 – lays out call to action and universal coverage target.

Links

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
www.cdc.gov/malaria/faq.htm

The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
www.theglobalfund.org/en/about/malaria/

Measles Initiative
www.measlesinitiative.org/news.asp

National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Disease
www3.niaid.nih.gov

The President's Malaria Initiative
www.fightingmalaria.gov

PRI's The World - The Forgotten Plague: Malaria
www.theworld.org/?q=node/4288

Roll Back Malaria Partnership
www.rollbackmalaria.org

UNICEF
www.unicef.org/health/index_malaria.htm

UNICEF Video: The significance of Africa Malaria Day and the state of the effort to roll back malaria
www.unicef.org/infobycountry/malawi_33583.html

World Health Organization
www.who.int/topics/malaria/en/

World Malaria Report 2005 by UNICEF and WHO
www.rbm.who.int/wmr2005/