National Malaria Strategic Plan (NMSP) of Suriname: 2023 – 2027

This document aims to extend Suriname’s National Malaria Strategic Plan for the Elimination of Malaria (NMSPEM) from 2023 to 2027. Despite the current low number of cases, maintaining Suriname free of malaria is not simple or easy. The Malaria Program has designed the new “National Strategic Plan for Malaria Elimination to carry on the successful impact on the incidence of malaria in the country.

Vision: Suriname will be free of malaria transmission within a region free of malaria in 2025.

Mission: Provide immediate and free access to malaria diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up to all cases, to avoid the re-establishment of malaria in Suriname while at the same time supporting the expansion of services, across the border areas, with the neighboring countries.

Aim: Decrease and contain imported malaria and local outbreaks and prevent the re-establishment of Malaria in Suriname.

Objectives: The Suriname government aims to eliminate malaria transmission in the country, decreasing the number of imported malaria to avoid its re-establishment. Since most cases in Suriname are imported, the priority to achieve this vision is focused on breaking the constant influx of imported cases introducing the disease in the country. The operational objectives are centered on early diagnosis and treatment and finding ways to collaborate with the regional effort to improve malaria services in French Guyana, Brazil, Guyana, and Venezuela.

Main objectives:

• Sustain the required financial resources, national management capacity, and structures to effectively and efficiently deliver the interventions needed to achieve and maintain elimination.
• Decrease the number of imported cases working towards elimination in the Guyana Shield through an active campaign of advocacy with the neighboring countries at the regional and international level to convince the health authorities of the need to provide free malaria diagnosis, treatment, and prevention to all, including the population living in the mining areas.
• Maintain preventive measures; early, free diagnosis, free treatment, and follow-up of all cases to avoid the reintroduction of malaria.