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Dakar, July 5 (APS) – The Executive Director of the Global Fund to Fight Malaria, Joseph Silva Barboza, said Thursday in Dakar the need to increase community interventions to achieve the goals of elimination of the disease by 2030.
'' It will be necessary to focus on community interventions and continue efforts to achieve malaria elimination goals by the year 2030 ' He stated, inter alia, that
Dr. Barboza was speaking at a presentation devoted to the analysis of the implementation of community interventions over the period 2015-2017, in the framework of a workshop of restitution of the interventions of the Global Fund to fight against malaria.
'' The results obtained are good, especially as the national survey of malaria indicated a rate of 86% of net use at the level of n ational. However, it is necessary to make great efforts to maintain this rate, "he said.
He thus called for the continuation of the implementation of the strategies of proximity and mass in order to to involve more people in this fight against the disease. '' There is a need to promote collaboration between community-based organizations (CBOs) and health districts, '' he encouraged.
The organization of the long-lasting impregnated mosquito net distribution campaign (LLINs) has a national bedding rate of 82%, but the challenge is to boost communication so that all families sleep under mosquito nets all year long and every night, Dr. Barboza insisted. 19659002] '' For the actual distribution campaign, we exceeded the figure of eight million, corresponding to a coverage rate of 99.69% compared to the target of 13 regions of the country '', he argued.
According to the Executive Director of the Global Fund to Fight Malaria, four million people were sensitized in 2017 during the distribution campaign, which involved the distribution of more than eight million mosquito nets.
Recognition diplomas for actors who have distinguished themselves in the fight against the disease put an end to this workshop to report on the results of the interventions implemented by the NGO Intra Health on behalf of the Global Fund to Fight Malaria.
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