National Malaria Strategic Plan (NMSP) of the Philippines: 2020 – 2022

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

The updated National Strategic Plan for the Control and Elimination of Malaria in the Philippines, 2020-2022 continues to pursue the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goal of ending the epidemic of malaria infection in affected countries and the APLMA and ASEAN commitments to achieving malaria elimination in the Asia-Pacific Region by 2030.

The vision guiding the NSPCEM is: A malaria-free Philippines by 2030

Goal: By 2022, malaria transmission will have been interrupted in all provinces except Palawan, 75 provinces will have been declared malaria-free, and the number of indigenous malaria cases will be reduced to less than 1200, i.e. by at least 75% relative to 2018

Strategic Approaches: The four objectives are aligned with the five objectives of FOURmula One Plus for health and WHO strategies as explained below:

1. Objective 1. Universal Access to Prevention and Case Management is designed to meet the Service Delivery objective of the Strategic framework 2017-2022 of the FOURmula One plus for Health. It is also aligned with the core strategies of WHO’s GTS and Regional Framework
2. Objective 2. Governance and Human Resources responds to the strategic values of the FOURmula One Plus for Health that address leadership and management capacities, coordination, and support mechanisms necessary to ensure functional, people centered and participatory health systems. It is aligned with Element 1 of the Regional Framework and Supporting Element 2 of the WHO GTS.
3. Objective 3. Financing accelerated malaria control and elimination is designed to meet the Financial Risk Protection guarantee of the PHA and Fourmula One Plus by ensuring that adequate resources are available to eliminate malaria as a public health problem in the Philippines and prevent re-establishment of transmission. Like Pillar 2, it is informed by Supporting Element 1 of the Regional Framework and Supporting Element 2 of the WHO GTS.
4. Objective 4. Regulation, Quality Assurance, Use of data and information and Performance Accountability focuses on the mandate of FOURmula1+ to ensure a high level of quality for all services, goods and commodities provided by the program. Related to this, it covers use of data for decision-making; monitoring & evaluation with emphasis on performance accountability in accordance with objective 5 of Fourmula1+. It is informed by Pillar 3 and Supporting Elements 1 and 2 of the Regional Framework and the WHO GTS.