Strengthening community-based malaria prevention and surveillance interventions

Malaria is a major public health problem in Ethiopia, with about 60 percent of the population living in malaria risk areas. The Southern Nations Nationalities and Peoples’ Region (SNNPR) has one of the highest malaria burdens in the country, accounting for 15 percent of all malaria cases and 34 percent of all malaria deaths reported nationally in 2016–2017.

Malaria service uptake in the SNNPR is hampered by service delivery barriers for vector control interventions and household behavioural practices. For example, the 2015 Malaria Indicator Survey showed that only 45 percent of children under five in the SNNPR had slept under a long lasting insecticidal net (LLIN) the night preceding the survey, which is below the national target of 80 percent.

Malaria Consortium will contribute to the sustained reduction of malaria morbidity and severity within specific geographical areas of the Boloso Sore and Damot Sore districts in the Wolaiyita zone of the SNNPR.

Specifically, we aim to:

• strengthen integrated vector management to reduce malaria transmission and prevent malaria outbreaks, including through community-based indoor residual spraying (IRS), continuous LLIN distribution and larvicidal control
• improve malaria care-seeking behaviour and households’ practice of preventive behaviours through targeted and multi-level social and behaviour change approaches
• support malaria surveillance and response

Project DetailsProject Brief

Capacity Strengthening
Health Systems
Leadership & Governance
Monitoring & Evaluation
Surveillance

Mar 2019 — Feb 2021

$762,792

Ethiopia

Larval source management