Business engagement on malaria in Africa
Individuals get sick from malaria, but its disastrous effects are felt by households, communities, businesses and entire economies. Sustainable malaria control and elimination requires multi-level, multi-sectored collaboration. In response to the malaria challenge, the private sector has partnered with other actors and is an increasingly important provider of malaria control services and commodities—particularly to those populations who live beyond the reach of public health services. Malaria also affects businesses. When employees miss work to care for themselves or their families, companies suffer the effects of absenteeism and reduced productivity; the community’s buying power is reduced; and socioeconomic hardships, like reduced incomes, endure. Thus fighting malaria is both a social and a financial obligation for the private sector in sub-Saharan Africa.
Forty-one companies operating in malaria endemic areas of Africa participated in a survey aimed to identify challenges and opportunities in scaling-up malaria interventions, in order to inform and guide expansion of private sector engagement on malaria in Africa. Respondents represented national and multi-national companies, and industries as diverse as banking, agribusiness, mining, oil and gas, and manufacturing.
This reports analyses the survey results and provides a set of recommendations for expanded and effective business engagement on malaria in Africa.
- Tool Designer Organization:
- Corporate Alliance on Malaria in Africa, Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, and World Economic Forum
- Download:
- the tool
in English
More info from GBC web - Contact:
- Tom Achoki
Summary of main features
- Purpose
- Present the results of a survey and recommend areas of focus for expanded and effective business engagement on malaria in Africa.
- Scope of interventions
- malaria
- Limitations
- Private sector; Africa
- Output
- Recommendations to the private sector to strengthen national malaria control programs and health systems
- Time frame
- n/a
- Potential users
- Private sector, companies operating in malaria-endemic countries in Africa
- Skills required
- NA
- Type of software
- Adobe
- User manual available?
- NA
- Type and length of training required
- NA
- Available languages
- English
- Country applications
- NA
- Last update and version
- January 2010