Dr. Elizabeth Juma, WHO AFRO

Elizabeth provided the update of the Case Management Working Group. She stressed the purpose and objectives of the group, which are to minimize wasteful duplication, maximize synergies, and encourage harmonization and pooling of efforts for faster uptake and scale-up of malaria case management strategies and interventions. She emphasized that the main objectives of the group mirror the function of RBM Partnership. She also underscored the need to review case management indicators. The Case Management Working Group had proposed in 2021 that all stakeholders undertake a critical evaluation of the current and potential new indicators for better guidance for countries on the collection and use of case management indicators for action