Deadline: 12-May-23
Nominees are invited to submit their nominations for Malaria Champions of the Americas 2023, an initiative that aims at recognizing public health, national or subnational governing entities, and other institutions or organizations, groups or communities with proven evidence about sustained actions with positive impact on malaria control and elimination.
Malaria Champions is an initiative that recognizes a wide range of efforts that lead to the elimination of malaria in the Americas. These efforts may include experiences in malaria elimination in populations living in areas of difficult access to health services, High Burden Municipalities with important impact/case reduction, champions in elimination (countries, municipalities or provinces), actions to avoid barriers in accessing early diagnosis and treatment and prompt response (DT-IR), elimination of transmission by P. falciparum, countries with strengthened malaria surveillance, binational/south – south collaborations in malaria, intersectoral and community participation with impact on case management and reduction, etc.
Topics
- Successes with malaria reduction in populations living in difficult to access areas (especially in vulnerable groups: indigenous populations, migrants, miners, mobile populations etc.);
- Successful experiences with malaria reduction in High Burden Municipalities (where most of the cases in a given area are concentrated);
- Recently achieved malaria elimination (in countries, provinces or municipalities);
- Successful experiences in improving access to diagnosis and adherence to treatment;
- Innovative operating models (developed in countries, or by partners), with documented impact on malaria control/elimination;
- Efforts by research institutions to improve knowledge and evidence, and provide new tools for the accelerated elimination of malaria.
- Malaria burden reduction through binational/south-south collaborations; intersectoral and community participation (synchronization of activities);
- Successful experiences of countries, municipalities, or provinces with reduction or acceleration of P. falciparum elimination and preventing the reestablishment of its transmission.
Recognition
- The Malaria Champions of the Americas will receive:
- Commemorative plaque
- Opportunities for further development of technical capacities
- Opportunity to be featured in various communications platforms of Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), UN Foundation, George Washington University (GWU-MISPH), (Johns Hopkins University JHU-CCP), Florida International University (FIU-GHC), and American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH), as a best practice story on malaria.
Eligibility Criteria
- The Ministry of Health or subnational governing entities (State Secretariat of Health, Regional Health, Local Malaria Program, etc.),
- Municipalities (local health network, mayor’s office, municipal health secretary, community actor, group of local leaders, Col Vol groups),
- A person or group of persons that has led an impactful malaria effort,
- NGOs,
- Universities (research group),
- Private sector,
- Others malaria stakeholders,
- Anyone may apply on behalf of a third party.
Conditions
- Programmatic and/or management efforts with:
- Improvements on the process indicators related to one or more of the following components:
- expansion of the diagnostic network and treatment, to strengthen case management,
- community participation,
- intersectoral management,
- actions targeting vulnerable groups,
- binational coordination, etc.
- Epidemiological impact: significant reduction in total number of malaria cases, mortality and P. falciparum transmission in vulnerable groups, etc.
- interruption of Pf and/or total malaria transmission;
- Improvements on the process indicators related to one or more of the following components:
For more information, visit PAHO.