When COVID-19 arrived in Zambia, staff at all levels of the health system adapted global guidance to ensure safe delivery of essential malaria services. The malaria community adjusted implementation of key interventions, such as integrated community case management (iCCM), while also leveraging existing malaria communication and service delivery mechanisms in the COVID-19 response.
Despite the negative impact to malaria service delivery, Malaysia has taken strategic steps to ensure malaria control and prevention activities are not interrupted during COVID-19. Now more than ever, Malaysia is committed in its efforts to maintain “zero human indigenous malaria” status for 3 consecutive years to be declared malaria free.
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Building on the success of Lives in the Balance: A COVID-19 Summit for the Health and Well-Being of Women, Children and Adolescents (1-2 July 2020), The Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health (PMNCH), CORE Group and UHC2030 will reconvene partners across the globe for a virtual summit to take stock of how COVID-19 is impacting on progress towards achieving universal health coverage (UHC).