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You are invited to listen and learn from health professionals from around the world working with communities to end malaria.
 A Teach to Reach Special Event
Health workers united to end malaria
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Who should participate?
- National and sub-national health staff who wish to learn from the experiences by colleagues fighting malaria around the world.
- Global and regional malaria and primary health care (PHC)Â partners who wish to listen, learn, and contribute in line with their commitment to end malaria.
Who is organizing this Special Event?
This event is organized by The Geneva Learning Foundation’s Teach to Reach programme with support from RBM Partnership to End Malaria.
We are working with RBM Partnership to End Malaria toward integrating insights from community-based health workers into the global effort to eliminate malaria.
This will be a space where community-based health workers and global partners can come together to share experiences, insights, learn from one another and drive collective action forward.
Why get involved?
By sharing experiences, we learn from each other and equip ourselves with knowledge, strategies and tools to tackle the challenges we are facing – and we do it together.
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YES, I WANT TO SHARE MY EXPERIENCE“There’s no doubt malaria is a very big health challenge in my community and country. It has affected my family in such a way that I lost my niece. The medical personnel said it was malaria plus she wasn’t responding to treatment.”
Obiageli Victoria Okeke, Public health specialist (MPH), NGO, Abuja Municipal Area Council, FCT Abuja, Nigeria
If you face any of these challenges, this special event is for you.
Do you face access and uptake problems?
- Long distance to health services and waiting times
- High costs for families
- Delays in seeking care
- Low use of prevention methods
- Poor treatment makes people unwilling to return
- Community concerns not included in service planning
- False information spreads about malariaÂ
Do you face service delivery or supply chain problems?
- Hard to protect children under 5 years
- Hard to reach pregnant women
- Problems tracking malaria cases
- Limited staff and resources
- Not enough rapid tests and medicines
- Shortages of effective bed nets
- Problems keeping medicines at health centersÂ
Do you work in high-risk areas?
- Places where mosquitoes resist insecticides
- Communities affected by wars or disasters
- Areas with weak health systems
- Regions where malaria patterns are changing
Get first-hand insights from health workers fighting to end malaria
For the first time, during the 10th session of Teach to Reach, health workers took center stage to share their experiences of the fight against malaria.
We invite you to explore the insights presented in this report. We believe the findings will not only inform but also inspire new approaches as we continue to work together to eliminate malaria.
This report will be shared exclusively with Special Event guests ahead of the event.
REQUEST THIS REPORTWatch and listen to health workers sharing experience at Teach to Reach 10
“Suffering from malaria during her pregnancy and not having taken her medication correctly, my niece lost her child in the seventh month. Following a violent haemorrhage, she was taken to the operating room for a premature delivery by caesarean section. The pregnancy did not come to term.”
N’Guessan Krou Mathieu, Sanitary Technology Engineer, Ministry of Health, Bouaké, Gbêkê Region, Côte d’Ivoire
What we learned from these insights
Infections can disrupt households for weeks or months, have major financial implications, in terms of treatment costs and loss of income, and have life-long effects on children due to disrupted education and lasting effects on health and development.
- There are concerns about the diminishing effectiveness of drugs, potentially due to growing resistance or the use of substandard or counterfeit drugs, as well as their high costs and frequent unavailability.
- Although insecticide-treated bed nets can reduce the risk of mosquito bites, community acceptance is often suboptimal and the quality of nets may be an issue; community engagement is needed to promote greater uptake, plus additional research on improvements and alternatives.
- Malaria vaccines are seen as game-changers, but their introduction requires careful preparation, to ensure good take up, equitable access (among disadvantaged and hard-to-reach population), and their use as a complement to rather than replacement for other preventive measures such as bed nets.
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