Health equity and inclusion remain fundamental to #endMalaria

Governments have promised to end malaria by 2030. With around five and a half years left to eliminate the vector-borne disease worldwide, it is alarming that progress is off the mark. More worrying is that whatever progress has happened towards ending malaria, can be reversed. Without adequate science-backed and strategic investments and actions, how will countries that have ended malaria, keep the burden below the elimination levels? Climate change worsens the crisis as disease patterns shift.

[video] Inclusion and equity must be central to #EndMalaria and #HealthForAll efforts

[podcast] Are we on track to end malaria by 2030?

This podcast features insights from a range of experts who spoke in End Malaria Dialogues held around the 77th World Health Assembly of World Health Organization (WHO). Experts include: Dr Michael Adekunle Charles, CEO RBM Partnership to End Malaria; Dr Marijke Wijnroks, Head of Strategic Investment and Impact Division, The Global Fund; Sriram Natarajan, co-founder and CEO Molbio Diagnostics; Prof Maxine Whittaker, Community Representative at the Global Fund Regional Artemisinin Resistance Initiative; and CSO Platform advisor; Aloyce Urassa, Chairperson African Leaders Malaria Alliance (ALMA) Youth Advisory Council; Louis Da Gama, board member, Communities Delegation Unitaid and CSO Platform advisor; and Shobha Shukla, founder Managing Editor and Executive Director, CNS (moderator).

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[video] With 78 months left to end malaria by 2030, are we on track?

[video] To #endMalaria we must ensure communities are in centre of malaria response

End Malaria Dialogues: With 78 months left to #endMalaria by 2030, are we on track?

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Governments worldwide had committed to end malaria by 2030 as part of the promises enshrined in the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Malaria not only directly endanger health, it also perpetuates a cycle of inequity.

[video] Getting on track to #endTB & #endMalaria is a human rights imperative

[podcast] Ending TB and malaria are human rights imperative, says Aloyce Urassa

This podcast features Aloyce P Urassa from Tanzania, who is a public health scientist specialising in implementation and health systems research with a background in health laboratory sciences. He is currently the chairperson of the African Leaders Malaria Alliance (ALMA) Youth Advisory Council, a Board member of Rotarians Against Malaria - Global, and a Global Fund Advocates Network (GFAN) speaker.

He was speaking as part of the #EndTB Dialogues (season-2) #90for90 #GlobalVoices series.

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Malaria vaccine: Vital addition to toolkit for preventing malaria but no magic bullet

Rights-based access to comprehensive health services remains centrestage

[हिंदी] It is indeed a breakthrough scientific achievement that we now have the first-ever and only malaria vaccine to prevent malaria in children. This is an important (and long-awaited) addition to existing range of scientifically proven effective methods to prevent malaria. While we celebrate this moment of yet another milestone scientific feat we must remind ourselves that this new and only vaccine is a complementary malaria control tool which needs to be added to the already proven measures for malaria prevention.

[video] Malaria vaccine: Vital addition to toolkit for preventing malaria but no magic bullet | #endMalaria

[video] Covid resources used for malaria/ dengue? Earlier all health system was diverted for Covid!

To end AIDS, TB and malaria, we need to go beyond Universal Health Coverage, on lines of WHO '3 Billion' model

This Podcast features a special message from Dr Tim France, a noted global health thought leader and Managing Director of Inis Communication. Dr France was on panel of experts in a session at 10th IAS Conference on HIV Science (IAS 2019) in Mexico City. He shares his insights on Universal Health Coverage (UHC) and to what extent is it an opportunity to accelerate disease elimination programmes such as those towards ending AIDS, TB and malaria?

Need to go beyond #UHC on lines of "WHO's 3 Billion" model to #endAIDS, #endTB, ↑ #healthsecurity

Greater Mekong Subregion multicountry grant to eliminate malaria focuses on artemisinin resistance

Shobha Shukla and Bobby Ramakant
(First published in Aidspan on April 16, 2019)

Civil society’s role is crucial in hard to reach areas, and needs strengthening

This year’s World Malaria Day theme, “Zero Malaria Starts With Me,” re-energizes the fight to eliminate malaria, which, though preventable and treatable, still kills more than half a million people every year.

Real talk: Are we on track to #endmalaria?

This year’s World Malaria Day theme, "Zero Malaria Starts With Me" re-energizes the fight to eliminate malaria which, despite being preventable and treatable, still kills over half a million people every year. While incredible progress has been made in the past 15 years (with over 7 million malaria deaths averted and about 40% reduction in malaria globally), the fight against the disease is now inching towards a tipping point - progress has slowed down in some parts of the world and reversed in a few.

India Health Fund provides platform for domestic financing and innovation to combat TB and malaria

Shobha Shukla and Bobby Ramakant
(First published in Aidspan on March 19, 2019)

The collaborative initiative, seeded by Tata Trusts, comes to the co-financing table

With an acute need to increase health budgets, innovative financing, especially mobilized within nations, is increasingly in the spotlight. At the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria’s 39th Board Meeting in May last year, the Fund stated that given the changing financing landscape and existing financial and programmatic gaps, the Fund should leverage opportunities to use innovative finance to increase funding flows for itself and other actors, as well as to increase the efficiency of its investments and national programs.

[Podcast] Despite challenges, Indonesia making progress towards ending TB by 2030

Despite challenges, Indonesia makes progress in fight against TB

[Podcast] Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) is posing serious threat not only to health security but also to #SDGs

Is AMR a threat? Health security is central to sustainable development