Malaria Consortium: A Dedicated Malaria and Communicable Disease Control Organisation

Malaria Consortium is a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to combating malaria and other communicable diseases among the poorest and most vulnerable people in Africa and Asia. More than 90% of our human and technical resources are based in Africa supporting Ministries of Health and partners in over twenty African and Asian countries each year through our offices in Uganda, Mozambique, Sudan, Zambia, Ethiopia and U.K. We work to provide an effective and comprehensive response to malaria and other communicable diseases. Our programmes and activities can be grouped in six main areas: 1. Improve the delivery systems to increase coverage of prevention among vulnerable populations; 2. Increase access to effective treatment : We help Ministries of Health, such as Uganda, to implement drug policy change nationally training thousands of health workers, in the public and private sector. We also implement innovative commercial strategies such as encouraging direct private sector distribution with the aim to increase access to Artemisinin-based Combination Therapy (ACT) by rural populations; 3. Deliver services to hard-to-reach populations especially in post-conflict situations: The Malaria Consortium has been engaged with countries affected by conflict and complex emergency settings for the last ten years; 4. Undertake operational research, monitoring and evaluation oriented to improving the delivery of effective interventions: All the research undertaken by the Malaria Consortium has direct relevance and linkage to implementation and serves to provide valuable knowledge to strengthen the quality of programme activities and also to contribute to the wider understanding; 5. Enhance capacity in partner countries and organisations to control malaria and other diseases among vulnerable groups: The Malaria Consortium has been supporting capacity development through health system strengthening in East and Southern Africa, including Zambia, Uganda, Ethiopia, Tanzania and Mozambique, providing management support to the Roll Back Malaria (RBM) partnership in Uganda, and running a resource centre for the East Africa sub-Regional Network to support national malaria control efforts in the region; 6. Advocate to mobilise parliamentarians, media and civil society : As part of our Mobilising for Malaria programme, advocacy activities have been launched in Europe and Africa and active Coalitions against Malaria have been formed in the UK, France, Ethiopia and Cameroon.

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Contributor: Anuradha Bhattacharjee
Published Date: April 28, 2008