Review of ‘what works’ in elimination advocacy

Malaria Journal publishes an Open Access timely review of ‘what works’ in elimination advocacy. The authors identify 7 key advocacy elements for disease elimination:

1. A global elimination plan, supported by international health bodies.
2. Thorough costings and tools to support the business case.
3. An approach that is positioned within a development framework.
4. Core elimination advocacy messages.
5. Provision of advocacy tools for partners.
6. Extensive and effective community engagement.
7. Strong partnerships

Authors conclude that “Elimination advocacy will need to adapt to new technologies and research findings, emerging successes and challenges, changes in the socio-political landscape of eliminating countries, and changes in global health financing.”

See the full text of Advocating for malaria elimination – learning from the successes of other infectious disease elimination programmes here.