Global Fund Malaria Control Program

Pact was a principal recipient of the Global Fund National Security Application for Malaria Control (2013 – 2016), a malaria prevention program. The objective of this project was to improve case management of malaria, strengthen social mobilization efforts against the disease, increase the effectiveness of screening and treatment at the community level and build awareness among vulnerable populations. Through a multi-stakeholder collaborative approach. Pact worked with local civil society partners (sub-recipients or SR) across all 22 regions of Madagascar. Together, Pact and its partner SRs strengthened an extensive network of over 34,000 community health volunteers, 2,500 chiefs of health facilities, and 100 district managers to combat malaria. Pact provided critical oversight and community-level coordination support, to develop communications campaigns and strengthened the prevention and treatment of malaria among vulnerable populations. Pact also utilized Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and GIS based analyses to target and empower communities to fight against malaria. 

In the fight against malaria, Pact also implemented a research study (2013 – 2018) titled, “Interaction between Plasmodium vivax and Duffy negative or Duffy (-) in Madagascar,” in partnership with the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at Case Western Reserve University’s (CWRU). The research targeted 1,500 children between 3 and 10 years of age in the districts of Tsiroanomandidy and Miandrivazo to study the difference in susceptibility to Plasmodium vivax infection and disease between Duffy (-) and Duffy (+) subjects and to identify the molecular mechanisms involved in the invasion of Duffy (-) red blood cells in Madagascar by detecting different strains of Plasmodium vivax infecting Duffy (-) and Duffy (+) subjects on the island.