Responding to increased chloroquine resistance, the Government has changed its treatment regime to artemesinin-based combination therapies, financing this switch remains a serious problem.
A US$12 million Booster has been added to Health Sector Support and Multisectoral HIV/AIDS as a contribution to the pooled health fund to:
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Support community and district-level malaria prevention and treatment activities to be integrated into district and community action plans and financed through pooled funds at district level, and
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Finance key commodities for malaria control, focusing on children under five and pregnant women
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Over the next four years, approximately US$5 million of artemisinin-based combination therapies (ACTs) will be financed through the Booster Program project. While the amount is still insufficient for the population at risk, substantially more children will have access to highly subsidized ACTs, and through the RBM Partnership, the World Bank is supporting efforts by the Ministry of Health to access additional support from the Global Fund to fill the ACT gap. In addition, approximately 600,000 long lasting insecticidal nets are expected to be financed in 2007 alone, with support from the Booster Program.
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