A newsletter on malaria control

MACEPA News is a periodic update on activities of the Malaria Control and Evaluation Partnership in Africa, which works to rapidly scale up proven malaria control interventions to achieve impact on health and economic indicators. Distributed three times per year, the online newsletter includes updates on emerging malaria control insights, as well as perspectives from Zambia and our regional and global partners. We hope to stimulate discussion and provide a forum for sharing progress and challenges in malaria control today.

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March 2010

  • 'Net flashes: News from Zambia and beyond
  • MACEPA in action: The importance of measurement
  • WHO, RBM, and MACEPA hold national strategic planning workshop
  • Rainy season bednet distribution in Barkedji, Senegal

November 2009

  • 'Net flashes: News from Zambia and beyond
  • New grant awarded to help countries record progress toward RBM 2010 goals
  • Ethiopia launches epidemic preparedness plan
  • A day in the life of a Tanzanian bednet distribution expert

July 2009

  • 'Net flashes: News from Zambia and beyond
  • Bednet workshop facilitates multicountry learning
  • RAPIDS helps fight HIV/AIDS and malaria
  • Home-based caregivers improving community health

April 2009—World Malaria Day special issue

  • Working together to count malaria out
  • RBM Partnership launches malaria control toolbox
  • World Malaria Day to be commemorated in Zambia, Ethiopia, and Tanzania

April 2009

  • 'Net flashes: News from Zambia and beyond
  • Feature focus: Ethiopia begins malaria risk mapping activities
  • Partner news: New job aid improves home management of malaria
  • Local voices: Zambian musicians use songs to help fight malaria
  • Links: Partners and publications

February 2009

  • 'Net flashes: News from Zambia and beyond
  • MACEPA news: MACEPA hires new staff; PATH creates Malaria Control Program
  • Zambia partners' voices : Zambia drafts 2009 Action Plan
  • Feature focus: Using mathematical modeling to inform malaria control scale-up
  • Vistas: Reflecting on malaria control in the year ahead
  • Local voices: Zambian mother uses community radio to fight malaria
  • Links: Partners and publications

September 2008—Zambia progress report special issue

  • 'Net flashes: News from Zambia and beyond
  • Zambia partners' voices: Documenting the impact of Zambia's scale-up program
  • Vistas: Regional implications of Zambia's malaria control achievements
  • MACEPA program perspectives: Planning plays key role in Zambia's progress
  • Feature focus: Zambia's success highlighted at UN Summit
  • Local voices: A father's story about malaria
  • Links: Partners and publications

September 2008

  • 'Net flashes: News from Zambia and beyond
  • MACEPA in Zambia: MACEPA bids farewell to Dr. Abdi Mohamed
  • Remembering Zambia's President Levy Patrick Mwanawasa
  • MACEPA in Africa: Supporting RBM's multi-country MIS training
  • Vistas: James Banda, Roll Back Malaria Partnership
  • Feature focus: Ethiopia releases 2007 malaria indicator survey results
  • Links: Partners and publications

April 2008—World Malaria Day special issue

  • World Malaria Day: Renewing our commitment
  • A global pledge to stop a disease without borders
  • Zambia's national and regional perspective
  • An update on the scale-up for impact approach to malaria control

March 2008

  • 'Net flashes: News from Zambia and beyond
  • Zambia partners' voices: Richard Harrison, Society for Family Health
  • MACEPA in Zambia: Country director's perspectives
  • Vistas: David Brandling-Bennett, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
  • MACEPA in Africa: Learning Community director's perspectives
  • Feature focus: MACEPA's partnership with Ethiopia
  • Links: Partners and publications

October 2007

  • 'Net flashes: News from Zambia and beyond
  • Zambia partners' voices: Dr. Monique Vledder, team leader, Zambia Malaria Booster Project, World Bank
  • MACEPA in Zambia: Country director's perspectives
  • MACEPA in Africa: Learning Community director's perspectives
  • Vistas: Melanie Renshaw, senior malaria advisor, UNICEF
  • Feature focus: Zambia develops state-of-the-art digital mapping tools and methods
  • Links: Partners and publications

July 2007

  • 'Net flashes: News from Zambia and beyond
  • Zambia partners' voices: Dr. Rogers Mwale, project officer, UNICEF Zambia
  • MACEPA in Zambia: Country director's perspectives
  • Vistas: Dr. Bernard Nahlen, deputy coordinator, US President's Malaria Initiative
  • Feature focus: Building bridges of awareness and support
  • Links: Partners and publications

April 2007

  • Letter from the director: Zambia and MACEPA learning together
  • Partners' voices: Chilandu Mukuka, NMCC deputy coordinator
  • MACEPA in Zambia: country director's perspectives
  • Vistas: Dr. Awa Coll-Seck, executive director, Roll Back Malaria Partnership
  • Feature focus: strengthening net distribution systems
  • Links: partners and publications

October 2006

  • Welcome: where we have been,where we are going
  • Partners’ voices: highlighting Zambia, regional, and global news and views
  • MACEPA in Zambia: country coordinator’s perspectives
  • Vistas: featuring leaders’ voices
  • Feature focus: highlighting what’s new in malaria control
  • MACEPA partners
  • Publications