FRONTIERS Projects | The Potential for Sustainability of Malaria in Pregnancy Initiatives (MIP): Lessons Learned from Two USAID-funded Malaria in Pregnancy Initiatives in East and Southern Africa

FRONTIERS PROJECT
The Potential for Sustainability of Malaria in Pregnancy Initiatives (MIP): Lessons Learned from Two USAID-funded Malaria in Pregnancy Initiatives in East and Southern Africa

FRONTIERS collaborated with the Malaria in Pregnancy East and Southern Africa Coalition for Prevention and Control (MIPESA) and Makerere University to assess the sustainability of USAID-supported interventions integrating maternal and child health and malaria prevention, detection, and treatment in Kenya and Malawi in sub-Saharan Africa. Preliminary findings showed that several strategies, including intermittent prevention treatment and treated bed nets, have been sustained and are being scaled up. Overall indicators on malaria have improved in both countries. Factors in this success included early and persistent focus on malaria as a national problem, utilization of evidence on promising and successful approaches, and the Government of Malawi’s strategy of subsidizing such approaches and developing a long-term strategy targeting malaria.

Location

Sub-Saharan Africa: Kenya and Malawi

Duration

August 2005–May 2006

Population Council researcher

Harriet Birungi

Non-Council collaborators

Makerere University, Uganda

Malaria in Pregnancy East and Southern Africa Coalition for Prevention and Control (MIPESA)

Donor

US Agency for International Development

Publications/Resources
Council researchers' names appear in boldface type.

2008
"Malaria in pregnancy pilot projects nationally adopted in Kenya and Malawi," FRONTIERS OR Summary no. 77. Washington, DC: Population Council. (full text)