Rethinking malaria: Governance lessons from other disease programs.

ABSTRACT: The global disruptions brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic as well as the stagnation of progress of global malaria elimination efforts have provided an opportunity to rethink several aspects of the global malaria program, including its governance at all levels, from the community to the nation and to the world. Approaching this issue requires an examination of the critical governance factors that affect malaria elimination as well as lessons that could be learned from the governance of other global health programs. The paper, therefore, first reviews malaria program governance challenges at the global, national, and sub-national levels. We then conducted a literature review of governance factors that affected four major global disease elimination programs; (1) the global smallpox eradic

SUBMITTER: Ohiri K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10021884 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature