A newsletter on malaria control

Fighting Malaria Together is a platform for sharing the latest news, research, tools, and events dedicated to controlling malaria. Its purpose is to stimulate discussion, providing a forum for sharing best practices and lessons learned in malaria control today. It includes a range of voices from experts working at the global, national, and local levels. Distributed four times a year, the newsletter is produced with the support of an external advisory board: Nathan Bakyaita, WHO/AFRO; Elizabeth Juma, Kenya National Malaria Control Program; Rory
Nefdt, UNICEF; and Claude-Emile Rwagacondo, RBM West Africa
Subregional Network.

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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