Public-private Partnerships and Malaria Control

Anti-malarial market and policy surveys in sub-Saharan Africa.

At a recent meeting (Sept 18, 2009) in which reasons for the limited access to artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACT) in sub-Saharan Africa were discussed, policy and market surveys on anti-malarial drug availability and accessibility in Burundi and Sierra Leone were presented in a highly interactive brainstorming session among key stakeholders across private, public, and not-for-profit sectors...
Source: Malar. J. 2010 9 Suppl 1: S1
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9 Jan 2010

It's not all bad news: advances in malaria drug research.

Source: Lancet 2010 Jan; 375(9709): 122
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Implementation of an insecticide-treated net subsidy scheme under a public-private partnership for malaria control in Tanzania--challenges in implementation.

BACKGROUND: In the past decade there has been increasing visibility of malaria control efforts at the national and international levels...
Source: Malar. J. 2009 8: 201
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Review: Provider practice and user behavior interventions to improve prompt and effective treatment of malaria: do we know what works?

Effective case management of uncomplicated malaria is a cornerstone of successful malaria control...
Source: Am. J. Trop. Med. Hyg. 2009 Mar; 80(3): 326-35
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A golden age for malaria research and innovation.

Source: Malar. J. 2008 7 Suppl 1: S2
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Methods for determining vaccine efficacy and effectiveness and the main barriers to developing a fully deployable malaria vaccine.

The past few years have witnessed the appearance of public-private partnerships and a significant increase of resources devoted to the development of malaria vaccines...
Source: Am. J. Trop. Med. Hyg. 2007 Dec; 77(6 Suppl): 276-81
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Malaria: an eradicable threat?

Source: J Infect Dev Ctries 2008 2(1): 1-2
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Institutional factors and HIV/AIDS, TB and Malaria.

This paper outlines the principal institutional factors affecting the slow progress in reaching agreed targets in Africa regarding the prevention and control of HIV/AIDS, TB and Malaria...
Source: Int J Health Plann Manage 23(2): 139-51
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Cost and cost-effectiveness of PPM-DOTS for tuberculosis control: evidence from India.

OBJECTIVE: To assess the cost and cost-effectiveness of the Public-Private Mix DOTS (PPM-DOTS) strategy for tuberculosis (TB) control in India...
Source: Bull. World Health Organ. 2006 Jun; 84(6): 437-45
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Insecticide-treated nets.

Insecticide-treated nets (ITNs) are the most powerful malaria control tool to be developed since the advent of indoor residual spraying (IRS) and chloroquine in the 1940s, and as such they have been an important component of global and national malaria control policies since the mid-1990s...
Source: Adv. Parasitol. 2006 61: 77-128
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