Approaches

Strategic approach 1: Promote and facilitate universal access of populations at risk to reliable diagnosis and effective treatment of malaria

Prompt and effective treatment of malaria remains a key intervention in reducing malaria morbidity and mortality. The challenges to providing adequate treatment are: treatment of fever cases as malaria without parasitological confirmation; widespread resistance of plasmodium falciparum to chloroquine and increasing resistance to other antimalarial medicines including emerging resistance to ACTs; wide availability of substandard and counterfeit antimalarial medicines; and weak health systems that are unable to deliver timely diagnosis and treatment and provide timely surveillance information, especially to remote and underserved populations.