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Elimination of Falciparum Malaria in Cambodia


             6. Costs and financing 40.
             6.1. Costs 40.
             6.2. Financing 43.
             6.2.1. External donors 43.
             6.2.2. National funding and out of pocket expenditure 44.
             6.2.3. Innovative financing 46.
             7. Conclusions 46.
             Annex 1. Country information 48.
             Annex 2: Priorities and targets in current national strategies 52.
             Annex 3: Assessments of feasibility through modelling 54.
             Annex 4: Costing assumptions 60.
             Annex 5. A template for country planning 62.
             Abbreviations.
             ACT.
             Artemisinin-based combination therapy.
             ADB.
             Asian Development Bank.
             API.
             annual parasite incidence.
             APLMA.
             Asia Pacific Leaders Malaria Alliance .
             BMGF.
             Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
             CHW.
             community health worker.
             CMW .
             community malaria workers.
             DRC-TEG.
             technical expert group on drug resistance and containment.
             ERAR.
             Emergency Response to Artemisinin Resistance.
             ESP.
             elimination scenario planning.
             GFATM.
             Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.
             GMS.
             Greater Mekong subregion.
             IRS.
             indoor residual spraying.
             GDP.
             gross domestic product.
             ITN .
             insecticide-treated mosquito net.
             LLIHN.
             long-lasting insecticide-treated hammock net.
             LLIN.
             long-lasting insecticide-treated mosquito net.
             MDA.
             mass drug administration.
             MMW.
             mobile malaria worker.
             MOH.
             Ministry of Health.
             MPAC.
             Malaria Policy Advisory Committee of WHO.
             NMCP.
             national malaria control programme.
             NGO.
             non-governmental organization.
             Pf.
             Plasmodium falciparum.
             Pv.
             Plasmodium vivax.
             PMI.
             United States President's Malaria Initiative.
             RAI.
             Regional Artemisinin Resistance Initiative.
             RSC.
             Regional Steering Committee (for RAI).
             RDT.
             rapid diagnostic tests.
             SSA.
             sub-Saharan Africa.
             TMT.
             targeted mass treatment.
             VMV.
             village malaria volunteer.
             VMW.
             village malaria worker.
             Executive Summary .
             Fig. Progress towards elimination.
             1. Introduction.
             The Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) comprises of five countries, Cambodia, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Myanmar, Thailand and Viet Nam and two areas of the People's Republic of China: Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region and Yunnan Province. The subregion is bound together by the Mekong River and characterized by important commonalities in social and economic development and extensive population mobility within and across national borders.


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