Report Type: Issue/Program Report

Malaria continues to afflict the population of Africa, especially sub-Saharan Africa, where nearly a million children a year lose their lives to the disease. Children under five, pregnant women, those with weakened immune systems, and any individual moving into a malaria-endemic area from a nonendemic area are particularly susceptible. However, no one is without risk, and the African workforce suffers from malaria either directly or indirectly through family members. Economic losses due to malaria deaths and the disabling, chronic recurrence of severe disease amount to $12 billion a year across Africa. Most countries suffer stunted economic and infrastructure growth due to malaria’s far-reaching effects.

CAMA has produced this 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

» For more information about other malaria control tools, visit the Roll Back Malaria toolbox