What does the Amazon Malaria Initiative do to defeat malaria?

2014
Malaria in the Americas
Malaria en las Américas
Malária nas Américas
What does the Amazon Malaria Initiative do to defeat malaria?
Diagnosis &
Treatment
• Expands access to prompt
diagnosis and treatment
• Monitors medicine efficacy
• Jointly acquires medicines
for participating countries
Communication
• Connects stakeholders
• Changes behavior
• Spreads successes
• Promotes investment
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Día Mundial de la Malaria
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Pharmaceutical
Management
Vector Control
Quality Control
• Promotes good storage
practices
• Analyzes vector
distribution and behavior
• Prevents stockouts
• Assesses effectiveness of
bednets and spraying
• Works to institutionalize
a 3-level approach for
ensuring medicine quality
• Enables exchange of
medicines among
countries
• Builds field testing
capacity for monitoring
quality control