The Corporate Alliance on Malaria in Africa
CAMA, PMI Strengthen Angola's Capacity to Control Mosquitoes
Top global companies and the President's Malaria Initiative are working with the Government of Angola on an intensive technical training program to arm the country's malaria fighters with state-of-the-art mosquito surveillance and vector control techniques.
By aiding the sharing of these comprehensive technical skills and best practices in mosquito monitoring and evaluation, as well as providing training on how to use the latest malaria control products, the private sector will help Angola, which reported more than 3.1 million cases of malaria in 2009, move more quickly toward reducing the disease's deadly impact.
Public and private sector health technicians from the provincial and district level will acquire basic capabilities and skills that are needed to determine the impact of malaria control efforts around the country, a gap which hampers decision-making on resource deployment at the national level.
The workshop is organized by the Corporate Alliance on Malaria in Africa (CAMA), President's Malaria Initiative, the Government of Angola, USAID's implementing partner Research Triangle Institute International (RTI) and the Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS, TB and Malaria.
Other partners in the effort include the World Health Organization African Regional Office. Lead corporate sponsorship is by the Chevron Corporation, with additional private sector support from Halliburton, Bayer, Sumitomo Chemical, Cameron International and Vestergaard Frandsen.
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» Read the press release in Portuguese (PDF)
» Read more about the Angola workshop (PDF)
About CAMA
CAMA's founding member companies—many of whom already implement or finance leading-edge malaria initiatives—are Marathon Oil Corporation, Bayer Environmental Science, Global Industries, Cameron International, Coca Cola Africa, Chevron, EDG Engineers, Halliburton, Noble Energy, Wood Group and WorleyParsons. Each company has committed to the CAMA 's goals and objectives and will play an active role in accomplishing CAMA's mandate.
- Mapping major private sector initiatives against malaria.
- Creating an evidence-based roadmap for eliminating malaria targeting workplaces, families and communities.
- Catalyzing scaled-up malaria control efforts by more companies across more business sectors to make large, demonstrable reductions in malaria incidence across Africa.
- Leveraging government investment to sustain gains at the community level.
"Malaria is one of the greatest threats to global health and economic welfare, but a well-organized corporate response can make a tremendous difference. CAMA's members will create a framework around which companies can implement the current and best practices in malaria interventions," said Dr. Adel Chaouch, Director of the CAMA Board and Director of CSR for Marathon Oil. "We are creating a forum where companies can gather to cooperate at the corporate level, and also within specific countries, so they can work more efficiently with governments to the benefit of hard-hit local communities."
"For businesses that operate in malaria-endemic parts of Africa, there's a huge business case to reduce malaria incidence, and companies have mounted some amazing malaria control initiatives," said Pamela Bolton, GBC Associate Vice President of Knowledge, Evaluation and Performance. "By collaborating with national governments and civil society players such as local NGOs, the private sector can not only broaden the reach of these malaria interventions, but also increase their cost-effectiveness and bring a higher return on investment."
CAMA has produced a management guide to help any company or organization operating in malaria-endemic regions of Africa develop an effective malaria control program. The guide makes it clear that to reduce the impact of malaria, it is necessary to develop a systematic, multi-pronged approach to interventions, using a framework that incorporates the biology, pathophysiology and epidemiology of malaria infection with environmental, economic and sociopolitical factors. The guide will take management through the process of developing efficient sustainable programming, from determining the project scope and assessing program capacity in infrastructure, support, resource availability, and the like; to defining the project and developing strategies for procurement, training, gap closure, and other issues; to finally developing and implementing the program itself, including effective monitoring and evaluation and strategies for continuous quality improvement.
» Download Company Management Guide: Implementing an Integrated Malaria Control Program
» Read Defeating Malaria: A Question of How Soon, Not How
» For more information about other malaria control tools, visit the Roll Back Malaria toolbox
