Building to collective impact: the Global Fund support for measuring reduction in the burden of malaria.
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria was established in 2002 to fund substantial scaling-up coverage of proven and effective interventions to reduce infection, illness, and deaths in those communities most at risk. As of December 2006 the Global Fund has committed $2.6 billion over 5 years to support malaria prevention and control in 85 countries. The Global Fund has worked closely with Roll Back Malaria partners to develop consensus on a set of outcome and impact indicators that have been incorporated into malaria grant agreements. Although the Global Fund has recommended that 5-10% of grant funds be invested in improving the capacity of the national monitoring and evaluation systems, an average of only 3.9% is invested in these systems. Several countries are already demonstrating reductions in the malaria burden. To sustain the scale-up in funding to support malaria interventions, countries must ensure that resources are used now to show robust, systematic, and regular measurement of impact on the burden of malaria.
Nahlen
Bernard L
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Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, Chemin de Blandonnet, 1214 Vernier, Geneva, Switzerland. bnahlen@usaid.gov
Low-Beer
Daniel
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D002202:Capital Financing; D006801:Humans; D007391:International Cooperation; D008288:Malaria / Q000191:economics* / Q000469:parasitology / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000628:therapy*; D012106:Research / Q000191:economics; D012107:Research Design