National Malaria Strategic Plan (NMSP) of Tanzania: 2018 – 2020

Note: A more recent NMSP is available. View it here (link). 

This Supplementary Malaria Midterm Strategic Plan (SMMSP) 2018 -2020 is a product of Midterm Review (MTR) conducted in July – August 2017 at the midpoint of the National Malaria Strategic Plan (NMSP) 2015 – 2020 implementation period. MTR was conducted by the Government under WHO technical assistance and in collaboration with partners. The purpose was to assess malaria situation and program performance in order to strengthen the program implementation for better results and impact. One of the key MTR recommendation was; Update appropriate intervention packages and response mechanisms for malaria in different epidemiological strata and promote evidence based delivery of malaria intervention in the context of changing malaria epidemiology in the country.

Vision: Tanzania becomes a society free from malaria.

Mission: Ensure all Tanzanians have access to quality, effective, safe, and affordable malaria preventive and curative interventions through timely and sustainable collaborative efforts with partners and with emphasis on community ownership being the principle beneficiaries

Goal: Malaria control is the continuum to malaria elimination. The average national goal is to reduce malaria prevalence from 7.3% in 2017 to less than 1% in 2020. Stratification is an intervention to a new malaria surveillance core intervention. The targets for strata are formulated to control, reduce malaria burden in moderate to high strata, and maintain very low prevalence in elimination areas.

The goal is to reduce the average malaria prevalence in moderate and high disease burden areas from 16% in 2017 to less than 5% in 2020 and in low disease burden areas from 3% in 2017 to less than 1% in 2020.

Strategy Components:
Malaria intervention components

• Core interventions
  • Integrated Malaria Vector Control
  • Malaria diagnosis, treatment and preventive therapies
  • Surveillance, monitoring and evaluation
• Supportive interventions
  • Promotion of malaria prevention and curative services through information, education and communication
  • Programme management, partnership development and resource mobilization

This is the mid-term revised version of the MSP 2018 -2020