National Malaria Strategic Plan (NMSP) of Senegal: 2021 – 2025

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

Senegal was deeply inspired by the WHO publication of Global Technical Strategy for Malaria 2016–2030 to develop the Plan Stratégique National de Lutte Contre le Paludisme (PNLP) au Sénégal 2021 – 2025. Strong involvement of partners in the design of the document was noted. Despite the particular context of the year 2020 strongly marked by the coronavirus pandemic, actors from all sides in a beautiful spirit of interdisciplinarity and multisectorality, contributed decisively to the development of the National Malaria Strategic Plan (NMSP). The results obtained demonstrate the great capacity of the health system to adapt, its resistance, and its endurance.

The general objectives, relative to 2019, are to: reduce malaria incidence by at least 75%; reduce malaria-related mortality by at least 75%; and interrupt local transmission in at least 80% of the districts classified as eligible in 2019.

The 2021–2025 NSP comprises eight intervention areas, each with one to four specific objectives and corresponding interventions.