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Building to Collective Impact: The Global Fund Support for Measuring Reduction in the Burden of Malaria

The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria was established in 2002 to fund substantial scaling-up coverage of proven and effective interventions to reduce infection, illness, and deaths in those communities most at risk. As of December 2006 the Global Fund has committed $2.6 billion over 5 years to support malaria prevention and control in 85 countries. The Global Fund has worked closely with Roll Back Malaria partners to develop consensus on a set of outcome and impact indicators that have been incorporated into malaria grant agreements. Although the Global Fund has recommended that 5–10% of grant funds be invested in improving the capacity of the national monitoring and evaluation systems, an average of only 3.9% is invested in these systems. Several countries are already demonstrating reductions in the malaria burden. To sustain the scale-up in funding to support malaria interventions, countries must ensure that resources are used now to show robust, systematic, and regular measurement of impact on the burden of malaria.

Received December 27, 2006. Accepted for publication June 28, 2007.

^* Address correspondence to Bernard Nahlen, Room 3.6-18 RRB, Washington DC 20523. E-mail: bnahlen{at}usaid.gov

Authors’ addresses: Bernard Nahlen, Room 3.6-18 RRB, Washington DC 20523, Tel: 202-712-5915, Fax: 202-216-3702, E-mail: bnahlen{at}usaid.gov. Daniel Low-Beer, Global Fund, Chemin de Blandonnet, 1214 Vernier, Geneva, Switzerland, Telephone: 41-22-791-1929, Fax: 41-22-791-1701.

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