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Title: LUCSA/ELCA Regional Malaria Program: Update and Future Perspective


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LUCSA/ELCA Regional Malaria Program Update and
Future Perspective
  • Prepared by
  • Lucas Owuor-Omondi

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Goal
  • The overall goal of the LUCSA/ELCA Regional
    Malaria Program is to contribute to the reduction
    of morbidity and mortality due to malaria,
    particularly among pregnant women and children
    under- five as well as among vulnerable
    population groups.

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Objective
  • To empower congregations and surrounding
    communities to reduce the risk and vulnerability
    to malaria infection and to alleviate the impact
    of the disease and disease condition on the
    affected households, with a strong focus on
    children under five years, pregnant women and the
    disadvantaged from the hard to reach areas.

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Coverage
  • The five targeted countries are Angola, Malawi,
    Mozambique, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.

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Coverage (e.g.) - Mozambique
  • 146 Congregations, 146 Congregational
    Development Committees (CDCs), 14 Parish
    Development Committees (PDC), 3 (three)
    District Development Committees (DDC), 730
    Activists, 85 Clinical Officers/Nurses, 135
    Traditional Health Workers, 146 Youth groups and
    146 Women groups.

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Coverage - Mozambique
  • The primary beneficiaries are the inhabitant of
    the 3 proposed areas covered by the Program
    12.924 people (7.237 women- 56)
  • The secondary beneficiaries are the neighboring
    populations of the targeted districts in Nampula,
    Cabo Delgado, Tete, Zambezia, Manica, Sofala,
    Gaza and Maputo City.

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LUCSA/ELCA Regional Malaria Program An
Opportunity
  • The Program presents an opportunity to LUCSA to
    contribute to the strengthening of the
    organizational and development capacity of member
    churches with a view to enhancing their
    efficiency, effectiveness and responsiveness to
    enable them to address the problem of malaria and
    related needs of the congregations and
    surrounding communities.

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Strategic Priorities Pillars
  • Institutional Capacity Building
  • Malaria prevention, control and management
  • Treatment
  • Sustainable Livelihood

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Collaboration and Partnership Zambia
  • Zambia by far has demonstrated high level of
    networking between partners with more faith being
    given to the church. A lot of responsibilities
    have been put the church as a result of
    partnership created e.g. Ministry of Health,
    National HIV and AIDS, Human Rights Commission

10
  • Most Significant Changes

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Most Significant Changes
  • The malaria campaign programme has really
    helped. There has been notable reduction in the
    burden of the disease in the area. Before the
    program started, people only slept in the
    mosquito nets during rainy seasons when
    mosquitoes are plenty but now we all sleep under
    the mosquito nets throughout the year and this
    has reduced the number of malaria cases in our
    village. For example my son will never go to
    sleep not until he is covered with a mosquito
    net. We now know how to protect ourselves and we
    are not spending on medicines any more. (A
    mother in Simaubi Zambia)

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Most significant Changes (cont..)
  • This is a very good programme please may the
    Lord bless you for bringing this programme here.
    We thank the Lutheran church for bringing VCT to
    our area. This is the first time we are having
    something like this. Today we have had people to
    teach about public Health, Reproductive health,
    TB and HIV/AIDS. We thank the Project Coordinator
    for bringing these people to this area especially
    the people who have talked about reproductive
    health. We have a problem here that children
    start having babies when they are still young
    instead of concentrating on education, because of
    this we have a lot of girls who are school
    dropouts in this area. An Elder in Mulimba -
    Zambia

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Most Significant Changes (Cont..)
  • It is very encouraging to see our headman
    calling for Malaria sensitisation meetings at his
    home. Since the time our headman came from the
    training workshop which was conducted by the
    ELCZa/LECA Malaria campaign programme in Zambezi
    so far he has held about three Malaria Campaign
    meetings. He is also involved in the teaching and
    he tells us that he doesnt want to see anyone in
    his village die of malaria because its a disease
    that is curable, treatable and preventable. (An
    Elder in Dipalata Congregation Zambia)

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Most Significant Changes (Contd..)
  • I have learned not to wait till it is late to
    take a sick person for testing and treatment
    within 24 hours!
  • Joaquim Cardoso (33) married with 5 children, an
    Activista in Namacaua - Namina in Mozambique
    recalls with a lot sadness and pain, how his own
    child died of malaria. Speaking in his native
    language Emakua, Senhor Joaquim recognizes the
    seriousness of Malaria as a deadly disease by
    recalling the title of a song sung by the
    activists during the door-door sensitizations
    campaigns, households visits - Malariayala
    Nikassope!, which they use to drive the point
    home that malaria is preventable

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Some Statistics Mozambique
  • The Clinic at Namina town in Nampula Province in
    Mozambique reports The cases of malaria have
    significantly reduced during the first semester
    2012 as compared to the same period last year
    (2011), from 1, 982 cases to 1,129 diagnosed
    cases respectively! This represents a 43
    decrease in malaria cases from one year to the
    next. (Litos Manuel, General Medical Technician,
    Namina)

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Some statistics Zambia
  • 1,099 church, community and traditional leaders
    were trained and 6,300 information, education and
    campaign materials on malaria specific behavior
    change were distributed.
  • 4 open clinics were conducted and 2,031 with
    symptoms of malaria were tested

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Some Statistics Zambia (cont..)
  • Out of the 1,484 who tested positive during the
    four open clinics were treated.

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Some Statistics Zambia (contd..)
  • Between Jan-Sept 2012 the malaria livelihood
    program managed to reach a total of five hundred
    and nine people (509) 264 males and 245 females
    in 12 Villages covered by the program.

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Some Statistics Zimbabwe
  • 58 awareness sessions were carried out by Malaria
    Focal Persons, from January June , or about one
    session every three days.
  • 3,107 people were reached through training
    programs on signs and symptoms of malaria,
    prevention methods, environmental management and
    treatment.

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Some Statistics Zimbabwe (cont..)
  • 692 community members were trained in malaria
    treatment methods including Rapid Diagnostic
    Testing, Intermittent Preventive Treatment and
    early treatment-seeking behaviors

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Mozambique Angola Malawi Zambia Zimbabwe
HH with mosquito nets 57 37 67.3 70.4 41
HH with at least one ITN 28.4 35 56.8 64 28.8
of children lt5 years who slept under an ITN a night before the interview 17.5 26 39.4 50 30.3
of pregnant women who slept under an ITN the night before the interview 19.5 35.2 47.7 9.7
of women who during the pregnancy that occurred in the last two years took two or more doses of SP/Fansider 18.6 18 55 70.2
of children lt5 years who had fever during two weeks preceding the interview 13.4 34 34.5 34.1
of children lt5 years who had fever in the last two weeks preceding the interview and who took antimalarial either within 24 or 48 hours 22.2 16.4 28 18.7
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The Challenge
  • It is arguably unrealistic to suggest that
    malaria can be eradicated from much of tropical
    Africa, but it is entirely reasonable to assume
    that the burden can be reduced such that malaria
    is no longer considered a priority public health
    problem.

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Monitoring and Evaluation
  • LUCSA will utilize the following FIVE core
    indicators as a basis for measuring change
    brought about by the Program
  • Reduction in malaria morbidity and mortality.
  • Improvement in target households and communities
    capacity to prevent, control and manage the
    disease.

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Monitoring and Evaluation
  • 3. Organizational Development and Systems
    Strengthening of member churches to ensure
    upward and downward accountability effective
    response to emerging issues timely and quality
    services effective resource mobilization,
    management and control and documentation and
    sharing of best practices.

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Monitoring and Evaluation
  • 4. Linkages between the Regional Malaria Program
    and other sectors of government and other key
    actors.
  • 5. Technical support and partnership building.

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A Call for Partnership
  • The will to sustain the gains we have made in
    malaria must come not only from politicians, but
    from affected communities. If communities can
    know the true burden of malaria and can see the
    results of prevention and control efforts, then
    the will to eliminate and ultimately eradicate
    malaria will never fade.
  • Dr Margaret Chan, Director-, General WHO

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Thank You !
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