The Hilton Hotel in Yaoundé served as the setting on Wednesday March 13, 2024 for the official launch of the project “System to end the burden of Malaria through significant engagement in the Far North” (SEMBE I) by the Minister of Health public. A US Presidential Malaria Initiative (PMI) funded by the United States Agency for Development (USAID) for a period of five years and implemented by the Cameroonian Association for Social Marketing (ACMS). Cameroon is one of 11 countries that represents approximately 70% of the malaria burden and implements the “High Burden to High impact” approach ».
A launching ceremony which took place in the presence of the president of the Far North regional council, the head of the PMI, the president of the board of directors of the ACMS and many other personalities who came to support this initiative. It must be said that this comes only a few days after the Yaoundé agreement resulting from the work of the international forum on malaria which has just hosted the Cameroonian capital where Cameroon's experience on the malaria vaccine for children from zero to 2 years was shared in the Soa health district.
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Dr Malachie Manaouda, Minsanté
« We have experienced a drop of around 40% in the incidence rate of deaths due to malaria for the period 2022/2023. throughout the national territory. This still hides some disparities because there are regions which continue to be impacted such as the Far North region. For us, SEMBE I which arrives today offers the advantage to identify and put in place new means to strengthen the current capacity of actors to better do their work in the fight against malaria. It would also be to identify, determine and implement new initiatives but embed in the community In complementarity with the other means put in place by the government and the latest vaccine solution which is arriving to join the efforts already made. It is therefore a question with SEMBE I of seeing how the different actors will together monitor the implementation of all this, I believe this should give us better coordination of the activity to fight against malaria on the ground and more support from the populations from this part of the country. Overall we expect a drop in malaria in the Far North and even across the country ».
Clément Noumsi
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