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| These achievements signal great momentum, but
still more is needed if we hope to reach national,
regional, and global goals. |
Global funding to fight the disease has increased
from approx US$60 million in 1998 to approx US$1
billion per year in 2006. The Global Fund to Fight
AIDS, TB and Malaria has earmarked US$2.2B for
malaria control to date. New funding sources include
the US President’s Malaria Initiative which plans to
distribute a total of $1.2B across 15 countries over
five years and the World Bank Booster Program
which plans to distribute $500M over three years.
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation added more
than $258M for research and $35M for monitoring &
evaluation a program to scale up impact.
While this increased level of funding is
encouraging; it still falls far short of the
estimated US$3 billion a year required to control
malaria.- Distribution of insecticide treated nets will reach 18
million by the end of this year - preventing 300,000
childhood malaria deaths over the next three years.
Building on success in Togo, Kenya and Niger,
nationwide campaigns will take place in Ethiopia,
Rwanda, Uganda, Sierra Leone, and Nigeria.
- Procurement of Artemisinin based combination
treatments (ACTs), currently the most effective
malaria treatment, has increased from 4 million
doses in 2004 to 45 million doses in 2006.
- The significant reduction of infection rates achieved
through the combination of insecticide treated
nets, ACTs and indoor spraying with insecticide in
much of Mozambique, South Africa and Swaziland,
has encouraged more and more countries to
adopt indoor residual spraying (IRS) as part of an
integrated strategy.
- Preventive therapy for pregnant women, delivered
through antenatal clinics, has been introduced in
eleven countries. Of these Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania,
Uganda and Zambia have reached nationwide
coverage.
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