MALARIA: Africa Fighting Malaria

Africa Fighting Malaria Updates and Events Africa Fighting Malaria (AFM) seeks to raise awareness of the huge burden of malaria in sub-Saharan Africa and promote sensible policies for long-term solutions. What the Pre-Post Evaluation of AMFm Can Tell Us In mid-July, amidst the busy global-health month of July, in between the Family Planning summit and the AIDS conference, the near-final draft of the independent evaluation of the Affordable Medicines Facility - Malaria (AMFm) was released. This evaluation report represents quite an expansion: an earlier AMFm evaluation report published in March 2012 was 194 pages while we, and the Global Fund, now have 675 pages to consume and process (that March report was a teaser, wasn't it?). The authors deserve credit for organizing a 7-country evaluation over a short period of time: kudos to the folks at ICF International and LSHTM, as well as the 'data contributors' from 5 different organizations working in sub-Saharan Africa.  Read More  Other News New Tests Rapidly Identify Counterfeit Medications Reductions in Artemisinin-Based Combination Therapy Consumption after the Nationwide Scale up of Routine Malaria Rapid Diagnostic Testing in Zambia Multiple-Insecticide Resistance in Anopheles gambiae Mosquitoes, Southern Cote d'Ivoire Events and Information September 17-18, 2012: Joint IOM/Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy meeting "Affordable Medicines Facility - Malaria Review and the Financing of Febrile Illness Management" in Washington, DC. Check out the book "The Excellent Powder: DDT's Political and Scientific History". Help in the fight against substandard antimalarial drugs - donate to the March of Washingtons! After a decade of observing the Global Fund, Aidspan founder looks ahead The Global Fund had not begun, a little more than a decade ago, when Bernard Rivers, who had worked as a freelance journalist and a software entrepreneur, found himself with enough time and money to spend a couple of years learning a new field. As a teenager he had lived in Africa, and wanted to learn about something he could do there. "The biggest issue was AIDS and the fact that ARVs did exist, and that not everyone could have them," he says now. "Just to call it a health problem understates it significantly." Read More Trends in availability and prices of subsidized ACT over the first year of the AMFm: evidence from remote regions of Tanzania The AMFm led to large increases in availability of low priced ACT in Tanzania, with no significant variation in availability based on remoteness. Availability did remain lower and prices remained higher in Rukwa, which is a more remote region overall. Low availability of child and adolescent ACT doses could be due in part to lower quantities of non-adult packs imported into Tanzania. Future research will explore whether increased availability and affordability persists and whether it translates into higher ACT use in Tanzania.  Read More  Also on FightingMalaria.org News AFM Articles Research About AFM Contact Us Donate to AFM Please email Africa@fightingmalaria.orgfor more information.

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