dc.contributor.author |
Kollipara, Aparna
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dc.contributor.author |
Moonasar, Devanand
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dc.contributor.author |
Balawanth, Ryleen
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dc.contributor.author |
Yuen, Anthony
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dc.contributor.author |
Fox, Katie
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dc.contributor.author |
Njau, Joseph
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dc.contributor.author |
Pillay, Yogan G.
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dc.contributor.author |
Blecher, Mark
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dc.date.accessioned |
2024-07-02T10:28:03Z |
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dc.date.available |
2024-07-02T10:28:03Z |
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dc.date.issued |
2023 |
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dc.description.abstract |
South Africa’s effort to eliminate malaria is significantly challenged by a large number of imported
malaria cases, especially from neighbouring Mozambique. The country has a funding gap to
achieve its malaria elimination goals (prior to 2019) and is ineligible to receive a national
allocation from the Global Fund. The findings of an IC were utilised to successfully mobilise
resources for malaria elimination in South Africa in 2018. A five-step resource mobilisation
strategy was implemented to highlight financing challenges and leverage the economic evidence
from an IC for malaria elimination in South Africa. South Africa’s malaria programme
implements control and elimination activities in three malaria-endemic provinces (KwaZulu Natal,
Limpopo, and Mpumalanga). Driven by the IC findings, the South African government took an
unprecedented step and increased total domestic malaria financing by approximately 36%, from
the 2018/19 to the 2019/20 financial years through the creation of a new conditional grant for
malaria. The IC findings predicted that malaria control in southern Mozambique is a prerequisite
to eliminate malaria in South Africa. Based on this, the South African government also allocated
funding towards a co-financing mechanism to support malaria control efforts in southern
Mozambique. The IC findings assisted the South African National Department of Health to
make a convincing case to key government decision-makers to invest in national malaria
elimination and maximise economic returns in the long run. The South African government is
the first in Southern Africa to mobilise a significant increase in domestic malaria financing to
address the financial sustainability of both national and regional malaria elimination efforts.
Continued surveillance activities will be required to prevent the re-establishment of malaria
transmission even after malaria elimination is achieved in South Africa. Information sharing and
close collaboration with provincial and national government officials were key to the successful
outcome. |
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dc.description.department |
School of Health Systems and Public Health (SHSPH) |
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dc.description.librarian |
am2024 |
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dc.description.sdg |
SDG-03:Good heatlh and well-being |
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dc.description.sponsorship |
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to the Global Health Group of the University of California, San Francisco. |
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dc.description.uri |
https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/zgha20 |
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dc.identifier.citation |
Kollipara, A., Moonsar, D., Balawanth, R. et al. 2023, 'Mobilizing resources with an investment case to mitigate cross-border malaria transmission and achieve malaria elimination in South Africa', Global Health Action, vol. 16, no. 2205700, pp. 1-7.
https://DOI.org/10.1080/16549716.2023.2205700. |
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dc.identifier.issn |
1654-9716 (print) |
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dc.identifier.issn |
1654-9880 (online) |
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dc.identifier.other |
10.1080/16549716.2023.2205700 |
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dc.identifier.uri |
http://hdl.handle.net/2263/96758 |
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dc.language.iso |
en |
en_US |
dc.publisher |
Taylor and Francis |
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dc.rights |
© 2023 The Author(s).
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License. |
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dc.subject |
Resource mobilisation |
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dc.subject |
Malaria financing |
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dc.subject |
Co-financing |
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dc.subject |
Return on investment |
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dc.subject |
Cross-border collaboration |
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dc.subject |
SDG-03: Good health and well-being |
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dc.title |
Mobilizing resources with an investment case to mitigate cross-border malaria transmission and achieve malaria elimination in South Africa |
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dc.type |
Article |
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