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Urban Malaria Knowledge Programme

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Urban Malaria Knowledge Programme aims to address malaria by improving intervention and control of the disease in Africa. The project organisers believe protecting people from the effects of urban malaria can preserve their livelihoods, build conditions for economic growth and prevent the diversion of scarce resources away from rural areas.
Communication Strategies

The programme suggests that a multi-sectoral approach is essential in tackling urban malaria requiring close collaboration between water, agricultural, urban planning, commercial, health and community players.

The programmes aims to fight malaria through:

  • cost-benefit analyses of accurate diagnosis and targeted drug delivery
  • cost-benefit analyses of larval control and environmental management for vector control.
  • appropriate, practical and cost-effective tools for monitoring malaria in the urban context
  • monitoring the effect of urban-specific social structures and transmission patterns on disease burden and strategies for control.
Development Issues

Health.

Key Points

The Malaria Knowledge Programme says: “urban malaria is amenable to prevention and control as the existing health, planning, agricultural and governance structures present opportunities for collaborative approaches. There is a need to target the most vulnerable sections of society who suffer a double burden of insufficient protection from malaria transmission due to inadequate housing and living conditions, and limited financial resources.”

Partners

Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, System-wide Initiative on Malaria and Agriculture (SIMA), International Water Management Institute (IWMI), UK Department for International Development .

Sources

Urban Malaria in Africa" [PDF] Policy Brief on February 1 2005.