title: Overcoming health systems barriers to successful malaria treatment.
abstract: The success of malaria control programmes is recognised to be handicapped by the capacity of the health system to deliver interventions such as first-line treatment at optimal coverage and quality. Traditional approaches to strengthening the health system such as staff training have had a less sustained impact than hoped. However, novel strategies including the use of mobile phones to ease stockouts, task-shifting to community health workers, and inclusion of the informal sector appear more promising. As global health funding slows, it is critical to better understand how to deliver a proven intervention most effectively through the existing system.
authors: MRC Centre for Outbreak Analysis and Modelling, Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Imperial College London, London, W2 1PG, UK. bhargavi.rao@imperial.ac.uk
authors: V Bhargavi
authors: VB
authors: Rao
authors: David
authors: D
authors: Schellenberg
authors: Azra C
authors: AC
authors: Ghani
mesh_terms: D017954:Africa South of the Sahara; D000962:Antimalarials / Q000600:supply & distribution; D003150:Community Health Workers / Q000193:education / Q000600:supply & distribution; D003695:Delivery of Health Care; D003906:Developing Countries; D005843:Geography; D006297:Health Services Accessibility; D006801:Humans; D008288:Malaria / Q000628:therapy*; D017149:Private Sector
chemical_list: D000962:Antimalarials