Malaria in pregnancy, or MiP, is responsible for approximately 10,000 maternal deaths and 100,000 newborn deaths yearly.

Intermittent preventive treatment, or IPTp, can help to save the lives of both expectant mothers and their unborn children from malaria. In 2022, as part of efforts to increase access to IPTp for pregnant women, the malaria in pregnancy working group of the RBM Partnership to End Malaria therefore initiated the Speed Up Scale Up IPTp campaign.

The 27th SME WG Annual Meeting that was held from 30 January  to 1 Febraury 2017, in Geneva, Switzerland, brought together 34 in-person SME WG participants from 12 countries. 

Meeting Objectives

• 1. Discuss improving and utilizing health facility data
• 2. Discuss DHIS2 and routine data sources
• 3. Review updates in M&E for SMC, MDA, and IRS programs
• 4. Discuss large scale evaluations in declining burden
• 5. Address RBM and MERG business issue

The 28th SME WG Annual Meeting that was held from 18 to 20 September 2018, inMbour, Senegal, brought together 37 in-person SME WG participants from 10 countries. 

Meeting Objectives

• 1. Assess innovations in collecting and using surveillance data
• 2. Identify examples and opportunities to use routine monitoring data to improve programs
• 3. Examine developments in large-scale evaluations
• 4. Improve global indicators to measure progress
• 5. Address RBM and MERG business issues

The recent episode of the Malaria Routine Data in Action webinar series held on the 7th September, was dedicated to the topic of

“Cross-border collaboration and surveillance initiatives”