Amazon Malaria Initiative
The Amazon Malaria Initiative (AMI) was a regional program that was created in 2001 by several countries sharing the Amazon basin with technical support from PAHO/WHO and financial support from the
History
The rationale for creating AMI was the need to provide and invest in targeted activities to improve malaria control in the Amazon basin countries where 88% of malaria cases in Latin America and the Caribbean are reported.
Description
AMI's approach to enhance malaria control in the eleven participating countries was to identify, support, and implement evidence-based interventions.[5] AMI partners share knowledge and lessons learned by networking across different countries, both in the Americas and around the world.[5] AMI hopes that all participating countries will develop strong health systems, strategic planning programs, monitoring, and evaluation, operational research and country level capacity-building.[8] To achieve the malaria control objective, AMI created the following set of goals and priorities.[9]
Goals
- Ensure malaria control programs incorporate selected best practices
- Improve malaria control at the sub-regional level
- Contribute to decrease malaria morbidity and mortality
Priorities
Provide effective malaria control and treatment by:
- Assessing efficacy of currently used medicines and suitable replacements
- Choosing and implementing new treatment policies
- Improving diagnostics quality assurance and quality control
- Expanding access to diagnostics test and good quality antimalarial medicines
- Strengthening vector surveillance and control and disseminating information
Since AMI has been introduced, the Americas have seen a 60% decrease in reported cases and 70% decrease in death due to malaria.
AMI focused on five priority areas for the AMI region: 1) consolidating the gains achieved during the first ten years of work and contributing further attention to P. vivax malaria and to populations with special needs;[4] 2) making malaria control activities more feasible, independent of AMI contribution; 3) developing a regional approach to malaria prevention and control; 4) helping national malarial control programs contribute to the decentralization effect in the health sector as well as modifying malaria control strategies to divers and emerging epidemiological setting;[4] 5) implementing the Strategy and Plan of Action for Malaria in the Americas for 2011-2015.
Strategy and plan of action for malaria
In September 2011, countries in the Americas approved a strategy and plan of action for malaria and established key targets for 2015.
As part of strategic communication and advocacy on behalf of malaria control in the region, AMI partners participated in the commemoration of international awareness days such as World Malaria Day on April 25 and Malaria Day in the Americas on November 6.[citation needed]
Amazon Network for the Surveillance of Antimalarial Drug Resistance
Through its support for AMI, USAID helped the Pan American Health Organization to create the Amazon Network for the Surveillance of Antimalarial Drug Resistance (RAVREDA). The goal of RAVREDA is to use a network of sentinel sites to monitor medicine efficacy and address
Current partner countries
Amazon Basin countries
Central American countries
International technical partners
AMI activities were executed through the collaborative efforts of the six international partners with varied technical expertise, all of which work in close coordination with one another as well as with the national counterpart stakeholders.[2][15]
- U.S. Agency for International Development(USAID)
- Pan American Health Organization / World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO)
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
- Management Sciences for Health (MSH)/Systems for Improved Access to Pharmaceuticals and Services (SIAPS)
- United States Pharmacopeial Convention (USP)
- Links Media
References
- ^ a b Najera, Jose; Zimmerman, Robert; Schmunis, Gabriel (April 23, 2012). External Evaluation of the AMI and RAVREDA.
- ^ PMID 22704680.
- ^ "AMI Goal and Accomplishments" (PDF). usaidami. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-07-14. Retrieved 2014-06-09.
- ^ ISBN 9789241504430.)
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- ^ a b c "Activities in the Amazon Region". www.cdc.com. Retrieved 26 June 2014.
- ^ a b World Health Organisation (October 2011). "Plan to reduce Malaria and Prevent its Reintroduction" (Press Release). scoop. Retrieved 19 June 2014.
- ISBN 9275126410.
- ^ a b c d e f g "Malaria in the Americas". paho.org. Retrieved 26 June 2014.
- ^ "Combating Malaria" (PDF). NAPSA.
- ^ Minsa (November 7, 2008). "Casos de Malaria mortal se redujeron". Andina. Archived from the original on August 31, 2014. Retrieved 19 June 2014.
- ^ "Caribbean and the Americas at risk of disease carried by small insects". What'supCaribbean. Archived from the original on 2014-08-31. Retrieved 18 July 2014.
- ^ Kumar, kaveri; Pigazzini, Anna; Stenson, Bo. "Financing for Malaria Elimination" (PDF). globalhealthscience.ucsf.edu. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-10-24. Retrieved 2014-06-19.
- ^ ISBN 978-92-4-156440-3. Retrieved 7 July 2014.