Mozambique's national body for coordinating the fight against malaria, which traces organized control efforts in the country back to the 1960s, when the southern region around Maputo intensified anti-malaria work partly to support regional elimination campaigns then underway in neighboring South Africa and Eswatini. The National Malaria Control Programme became a focus of the United States President's Malaria Initiative starting in fiscal year 2007, part of a wider PMI effort launched in 2005 to cut malaria deaths across fifteen high-burden African countries through insecticide-treated nets, indoor spraying, accurate diagnosis, artemisinin-based treatment and preventive therapy for pregnant women. In 2014 the programme and its partners began working explicitly toward the longer-term global vision of a malaria-free world, including through a Mozambican Alliance Towards the Elimination of Malaria formed with support from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the La Caixa Foundation.
Facts
Program Status Sponsoring BodyGovernment of Mozambique, with the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFATM) and the U.S. President's Malaria Initiative (PMI) since 2007 1 Target PopulationPopulations of Mozambique's malaria-endemic provinces, with children monitored as the key indicator population 1 Health GoalAccelerate from malaria control toward malaria elimination in southern Mozambique, working toward the World Health Organization's vision of a malaria-free world 1 Geographic ScopeMozambique, with early intensified control efforts in the southern region (Maputo city and Maputo province) 1 Measured ResultsMalaria prevalence among children in Maputo Province fell from more than 60 percent before 2000, to less than 30 percent by 2005, to less than 3 percent by 2015 1 Program status (class) Partially Attested
Launch YearSource dates only to the 1960s decade; the NMCP's own precise founding year is not given in this article. Classification
Program Kind Connections
Delivers Practice
Entity-backed identity for the program-kind enum value this public health program already carries, resolved to a health practice by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The program-kind fact itself stays on the program unchanged.
In the Other Atlases
- Also in Geography Atlas: Africa, found in there.
Sources
1. Setting the scene and generating evidence for malaria elimination in Southern Mozambique (Malaria Journal 2019)
Pedro Aide et al., Malaria Journal (BioMed Central / Springer Nature)Abstract, opening sentence
Starting in the 1960s, malaria control efforts were intensified in the southern region of the country, especially in Maputo city and Maputo province, to aid regional initiatives aimed to eliminate malaria in South Africa and eSwatini.
Background, funding sentence
These interventions are funded by the Mozambican government with support mainly from the GFATM and the United States President's Malaria Initiative (PMI), the latter since 2007.
Background, prevalence trend sentence
The prevalence of malaria in children of Maputo Province has declined from > 60% before the year 2000, to < 30% by 2005, to < 3% in 2015.
Background, strategic plan sentence
Following the World Health Organization's renewed vision of a malaria-free-world, and considering the achievements from the past, the Mozambican National Malaria Control Programme (NMCP) embarked on the development and implementation of a strategic plan to accelerate from malaria control to malaria elimination in southern Mozambique.
Program classification, entity description sentence
The National Malaria Control Programme became a focus of the United States President's Malaria Initiative starting in fiscal year 2007, part of a wider PMI effort launched in 2005 to cut malaria deaths across fifteen high-burden African countries through insecticide-treated nets, indoor spraying, accurate diagnosis, artemisinin-based treatment and preventive therapy for pregnant women.
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