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ProMPT Ghana | Promoting Malaria Prevention and Treatment
Client: United States Agency for International Development
The President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI), since it began activities in Ghana in 2007, has taken significant steps to prevent and control malaria, including mass dissemination of insecticide treated nets (ITNs) and increased distribution of approved preventive therapies to pregnant women. Malaria however remains a major cause of morbidity and mortality in Ghana. Between 3.1 and 3.5 million cases of clinical malaria are reported each year, and about 900,000 of these cases are children under five years of age.
URC leads ProMPT Ghana, part of PMI’s efforts to strengthen malaria prevention and control in Ghana. In partnership with PMI programs underway in the country, the IMSP is working to improve the quality of existing efforts and to strengthen the National Malaria Control Program’s (NMCP’s) ability to plan and manage the malaria program.
In partnership with NMCP, ProMPT Ghana is using quality improvement methods to strengthen the capacity of Ghana’s health care systems to provide quality malaria services; improve ITN distribution and expand household ITN usage, focusing on women and under children under the age of five years; and provide preventive therapies for pregnant women.
URC-CHS Services
Building Health Care Capacity through Monitoring & Evaluation
- The team is assisting the NMCP to develop a monitoring and evaluation system that will enable collection and analysis of high-quality, accurate data.
Strengthening the Health Care System
- Put in place proven quality improvement approaches, including improvement collaboratives, to scale up and spread the use of successful methods.
- Work in partnership with the NMCP, PMI partners; health care facilities; community, non-governmental and faith-based organizations; and private providers to identify best practices and successful interventions and expand them throughout the country.
Building Case Management Skills
- Train health care providers to develop diagnostics skills and ability to appropriately administer artemisinin-based combination therapies (ACTs) as well as promote appropriate home-based management of malaria for children under 5.
- Develop job-aids and behavior change communication (BCC) materials to develop interpersonal communications and counseling skills.
Reaching the Community
- Strengthen the capacity of Ghana NGOs and FBOs to implement community-based malaria activities.
- Develop BCC activities to increase community awareness and involvement in malaria prevention and treatment, using venues such as community theater and radio and print messages aimed at increasing antenatal care visits, use of long-lasting insecticide-treated bed nets, and adherence to ACT-based treatment plans.
Partners
- The Malaria Consortium
- The Population Council
Geographic Focus
Countrywide
For more information
Please contact Deborah Murdoch at dmurdoch@urc-chs.com.
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