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National malaria control programs (NMCPs) are frequently faced with making decisions that require trade-offs in order to best allocate scarce resources to control and eliminate malaria. With limited budgets, NMCPs need to choose how to fund staff, research, operations, essential drugs and diagnostics, and many other items in a manner that maximizes the potential impact on reducing malaria. A mismatch between product characteristics and NMCP need will result in overspending and opportunity costs because those wasted funds could have been used elsewhere.This fact sheet explores these potential downstream consequences for NMCPs of upstream decisions made during the product development process on two examples related to diagnostics used in malaria case management.

The Program for the Advancement of Malaria Outcomes (PAMO) is a flagship malaria program for the U.S. government President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI) in Zambia. PAMO helps the GRZ accelerate progress towards eliminating local malaria infection and disease. Implemented by PATH, PAMO supports GRZ at the national level through the National Malaria Elimination Centre (NMEC) and in four high malaria burden provinces: Luapula, Muchinga, Eastern, and Northern.This brief provides a high-level summary of PAMO's work.

This brief summarizes the experience and capabilities of the PATH Cervical Cancer Team. For decades, PATH has been at the forefront of evidence-based strategies from HPV vaccine research and delivery to cervical cancer screening and treatment to ensure we best meet the needs and realities of these countries for the greatest health impact.

Recently, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Africa CDC, and a number of country governments have advised people to wear non-medical masks in public when community transmission of COVID-19 may be widespread. Faced with shortages of personal protective equipment (PPE)—and in order to reserve the use of medical-grade masks for health care workers—homemade cloth masks can help reduce the spread of large droplets if used correctly. PATH has reviewed and consolidated guidance on the use of homemade cloth masks for use in communities.

The Program for the Advancement of Malaria Outcomes (PAMO) is a flagship malaria program for the President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI), a US government initiative, in Zambia. PAMO helps the GRZ accelerate progress toward eliminating local malaria infection and disease. Implemented by PATH in partnership with Jhpiego and the Broadreach Institute for Training and Education (widely known as BRITE), PAMO supports the GRZ at the national level through the National Malaria Elimination Programme (NMEP) and in four high burden provinces: Luapula, Muchinga, Eastern, and Northern.Integrated community case management (iCCM) is a key mechanism for expanding access to quality malaria care at the community level.