Bolstering & Sustaining Proven & Innovative Malaria Control Through Corporate-Public Partnership

Malaria is controlled in many parts of the Philippines but remains highly endemic in some, including some very remote regions of the country. The program supported by this grant is intensifying malaria control in the five provinces with the country’s highest levels of illness and death due to malaria. The program is tackling some of the key challenges in the provinces, including delayed diagnosis and treatment, inaccessibility of health care services, irregular supply or absence of adequate drugs, and untrained health care providers. Funded activities include strengthening local capacity for sustainable village-based malaria control, training health care personnel, distributing bed nets, conducting indoor residual spraying, supplying anti-malarial drugs and conducting community outreach through behavior change communications for malaria prevention using the mass media and schools.