UN Millennium Development Library

Foreword -- Working group members -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Millennium Development Goals -- Executive summary -- 1 Introduction -- The Millennium Development Goal and target for malaria Organization of this report -- 2 The resurgence and burden of malaria -- Health burden -- Economic and social burden -- 3 Review of major initiatives and institutional policies for malaria control -- Global Malaria Eradication Program -- Global Malaria Control Strategy -- Harare Declaration on Malaria Prevention and Control -- Multilateral Initiative on Malaria -- Roll Back Malaria initiative -- Abuja Declaration on Roll Back Malaria -- Medicines for Malaria Venture -- Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria -- 4 Malaria control strategies -- Disease prevention strategies -- Disease management strategies -- Epidemic prevention and control strategies -- Information, education, and communication strategies -- Monitoring and evaluation -- 5 Examples of successful scale-up of malaria control programs -- Tigray region of Ethiopia -- Highlands of Madagascar -- Viet Nam -- South Africa -- Tanzania -- Lessons learned -- 6 Priority challenges fo r scaling up malaria control program s -- Strengthening health systems -- Human resources capacity -- Social mobilization of communities -- Partnerships -- Programmatic challenges -- 7 Developing a global plan to achieve the Millennium Development Goal target fo r malaria -- Conditions for achieving a sustained impact -- Developing a global plan for reducing the burden of malaria -- Components of a global plan -- Needs assessment: costing and financing -- Resource mobilization: needs assessment at the global level -- Resource mobilization: needs assessment at the country levelâ" Ethiopia -- 8 Monitoring and evaluation -- Monitoring and evaluation of health programs -- Malaria-related Millennium Development Goal, targets, and indicators -- Coverage measures -- Main approaches to data collection for monitoring malaria control -- Monitoring the effectiveness of antimalarials and insecticides -- Developing geographic information systems and remote sensing -- Cost-effectiveness of service provision -- Linkage of malaria monitoring with poverty alleviation -- 9 Research and development to meet current and future needs -- Antimalarial medicine development -- Malaria diagnostics -- Malaria management in young children -- Malaria vector -- Malaria vaccines -- 10 Recommendations -- 1. Establish a realistic and measurable target on malaria -- 2. Enhance political commitment at country and global levels -- 3. Strengthen health systems at national and district levels -- 4. Develop human resources for program implementation -- 3. Promote social mobilization and community participation -- 6. Provide effective antimalarial supplies and commodities -- 7. Apply an integrated package of interventions -- 8. Scale up malaria control efforts to national level -- 9. Promote social and economic development -- 10. Incorporate malaria prevention and treatment approaches into school curricula -- 11. Develop surveillance systems for early detection of malaria epidemics -- 12. Promote partnerships for malaria control -- 13. Secure affordable access to the latest medical and therapeutic discoveries -- 14. Invest in research and development on malaria control tools -- Appendix 1 Estimated costs of scaled-up malaria control efforts in Ethiopia ,2005-15 -- Notes -- References.