Ensuring Progress in the Fight to End Malaria Through Innovation & Collaboration
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April 27, 2021 /CSRwire/ - In commemoration of World Malaria Day 2021, GBCHealth and the Corporate Alliance on Malaria in Africa (CAMA) hosted
Combat Malaria in Africa: Lessons and Opportunities, a high-level virtual event which brought together the malaria community to discuss how to ensure progress in the fight to end malaria during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond.
The importance of private sector engagement and cross-sector partnerships for malaria elimination, like CAMA, was a key theme of the event. “I would really encourage private sector players to get behind CAMA and to bring their skills and capabilities to this fight [against malaria],” said Peter Sands, Executive Director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria. He added that the Global Fund values “the energy, the skillset, the capacities that the private sector can bring”
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Manufacturer calls for partnership to step up innovation in malaria
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bednets amid Covid-19
GLOBAL Health Company Vestergaard has called for a strategic partnership to accelerate innovation in malaria bednets, in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Michael Joos, Chief Executive Officer of Vestergaard.
Michael Joos, Chief Executive Officer of Vestergaard, whose company manufactures mosquito nets said that long-lasting insecticidal nets are the backbone of malaria control programmes on which additional interventions are layered.
Joos said with the pandemic causing a steep decrease in malaria diagnosis and treatment, bednets are more critical than ever before to avert malaria deaths.
“Covid-19 has placed significant pressures on malaria programs. The humble bednet is quite literally, holding-up the fort. However, growing mosquito resistance to insecticides used on bednets is also making them less effective. New generation bednets with