Project profile — Community-Based Management of Malaria Control - International Rescue Committee

• Africa, regional (100.00%)

• Basic Health: Malaria control (12262) (100.00%)

• Gender equality (not targeted)
• Environmental sustainability (cross-cutting) (not targeted)
• Participatory development and good governance (not targeted)
• Trade development (not targeted)
• Biodiversity (not targeted)
• Climate change mitigation (not targeted)
• Climate Change Adaptation (not targeted)
• Urban issues (not targeted)
• Desertification (not targeted)
• Children's issues (principal objective)
• Youth Issues (not targeted)
• Indigenous Issues (not targeted)
• Disability (not targeted)
• ICT as a tool for development (not targeted)

The purpose of this program is to deliver life-saving modern malaria treatments, called artemisinin-based combination therapies (ACTs), to children under the age of five at the community level. This program increases access to ACTs beyond health facilities to the community, where most child deaths from malaria occur. It is estimated this program saves the lives of over 50,000 children in Mali, Malawi, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Cameroon. Key activities include: procurement and distribution of ACTs, training of community health workers to correctly identify and treat malaria, and designing easy-to-follow ACT packaging to help ensure accurate treatment. Furthermore, the ACTs are distributed according to a locally appropriate distribution plan intended to strengthen existing health care delivery systems. Delivery of an integrated package of treatment for malaria, pneumonia and diarrhoeal disease in children under five is also being piloted in some program areas.

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Results achieved as of December 2011 include: 926,416 treatments provided to children under 5 (23,803 in Ethiopia; 23,803 in the Ivory Coast; 120,969 in Rwanda; 198,123 in Sierra Leone; 269,560 in South Sudan; and 290,951 in Uganda). The IRC covered a population of over 4,100,000 and project activities were supported by a network of 13,000 community health workers.

• Proactive disclosure