Visualize No Malaria: data for disease elimination

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For the past decade, the Zambian National Ministry of Health (ZMOH) and the National Malaria Elimination Center (NMEC), with support from PATH and other partners, have used data to fight malaria – saving thousands of lives. In 2015, PATH and Tableau, in partnership with the ZMOH, launched Visualize No Malaria – a partnership focused on integrating new tools and systems for improved data use in support of the ZMOH effort to eliminate malaria by 2021. Through this work we have piloted novel tools and approaches that help public health decision-makers use data more efficiently and effectively and cultivated the skills of district and facility health teams to better address malaria burden. Because of PATH, Tableau, and our other Visualize No Malaria partners, health workers in Zambia’s Southern Province now have access to user-friendly dashboards that map malaria cases and trends, enabling them to smartly deploy limited resources: insecticide-treated bed nets, indoor residual spray, rapid malaria tests, and antimalarial drugs. This targeted use of data was instrumental in the dramatic 93 percent decrease in malaria in children seen in Zambia’s Southern Province over the course of the last three years. Defeating malaria is essential to ending poverty and improving maternal and child health. In Zambia, malaria elimination is within reach: in addition to national vision and political will, it requires decisive, rapid decision-making and action. The Visualize No Malaria partnership is well-positioned to support Zambia’s commitment and provide critical learnings to replicate the model across different geographies and health impact areas in the future.

http://visualizenomalaria.org/

Local implementation: Zambia, Southern Province

Ongoing from 15/08/2015 to 31/12/2021

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• Goal 1: End poverty in all its forms everywhere
• Goal 2: End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture
• Goal 3: Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all
• Goal 4: Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all
• Goal 5: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls
• Goal 10: Reduce inequality within and among countries
• Goal 17: Revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development

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