UN Millennium Project’s Quick Impact Initiative on Malaria marks a crucial opportunity for scaling up best practices and developing new approaches where needed to attain significant reductions in the malaria burden over the immediate term.

This web-based portal provides national malaria control program managers from the participating countries with a forum for continuous discussion of the different implementation issues and challenges encountered by the countries and their supporting partners on the way to achieving universal coverage with the key malaria control interventions by 2008 as proposed by the Quick Impact Initiative.

Designed to establish an online malaria database, this portal provides an electronic platform to the network of program managers for data exchange on the key aspects of malaria control activities and a basis upon which malaria control programs can be scaled up to national level.

The UN Millennium Project’s Quick Impact Initiative is open to all malaria endemic countries. If you would like to be part of this networking effort and become a ‘Quick Impact’ country, please contact us with a letter of interest.

Global Fund Round 7 Orientation/Training Workshop for English Speaking African Countries
March 26th to 29th, 2007 in Nairobi Kenya
Contact Roll Back Malaria Partnership Secretariat Richard Carr at carrr@who.int

Global Fund Round 7 Orientation/Training Workshop for French Speaking African Countries
April 2nd to 5th, 2007 in Douala, Cameroon
Contact Roll Back Malaria Partnership Secretariat Richard Carr at carrr@who.int

The Malaria and Neglected Tropical Diseases Quick-Impact Initiative Meeting
January 30th and 31st, 2006, Nobel Forum, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

On January 30 and 31, a landmark meeting took place in Stockholm. For the first time ever, malaria and neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) communities were convened to advance the Malaria Quick Impact Initiative endorsed by the United Nations (UN) 2005 World Summit and to expand this initiative to include NTDs.

The major outcomes of this meeting are:

■ Endorsement of the UN Millennium Project's scaling-up concept and plans for achieving the Millennium Development Goal 6 (combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases)
■ Integration of control of malaria and neglected tropical diseases at a national level
■ Development, by the end of April 2006, of comprehensive national plans for scaling-up
■ Development and introduction of monitoring and evaluation metrics
■ Identification of financing sources for the Quick Impact Initiative (e.g. WB, GFATM, official donors, debt relief)
■ Establishment of new procurement arrangements led by GFATM in partnership with UNICEF and WHO
■ Encouragement of new mechanisms, such as mass free distribution of nets and medicines and application of indoor residual spraying
■ Rolling out of Breaking the Bottlenecks Project of the Quick Impact Initiative aiming at resolving the bottlenecks to the efficient implementation of malaria and NTDs programs
■ Reconvening each year in Stockholm in order to evaluate progress and fine-tune future initiatives

Outcomes Report

This country fact sheet is to be completed by program managers of participating countries to provide a basis upon which a global procurement and financing plan will be developed for rapid scale-up to achieve universal coverage with the key malaria control interventions by 2008.
Quick Impact Country Fact Sheet
Quick Impact Country Fact Sheet

This web-based portal includes a Message Board open to public to facilitate discussion and exchange on the general subject of malaria. Registration is not required to view current topics on the Message Board; however, if you wish to post a new topic or reply to an existing topic, you will need to register. Registration is free and only takes a few minutes. The only required fields are your username, which may be your real name or a nickname, and a valid e-mail address. To register, click here. If registered, please login.