Wednesday 30 January 2013

MALARIA: Rwanda Award


From:William Brieger


Date:Wed, Jan 30, 2013 2:43 pm
New Times:

Rwanda: Why Rwanda Won Anti-Malaria Awards


Rwanda is among nine countries that have been recognised for their significant contribution in the fight against malaria.
The African Leaders Malaria Alliance (ALMA) Forum in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on Monday recognised Rwanda in two categories of 'Policy' and 'Impact and Implementation'.
The nine countries were awarded based upon the data in the ALMA Scorecard for accountability and action and country quarterly reports.
In the Policy category, recipients of the awards are the leaders of countries that have increased progress in performance as observed for removal of tariffs on anti malarial commodities, ban status of oral artemisinin-based monotherapy and community case management of malaria and pneumonia

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