*ISLAMABAD: In recognition for meeting international target on preventionof malaria, Pakistan has won the Alliance for Malaria Prevention (AMP)Award 2018.*
The AMP held its annual partners’ conference on January 28 and 29. Theconference was ALSO attended by a two-member delegation from Pakistan. Itwas hosted by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red CrescentSocieties (IFRC) in Geneva, Switzerland.
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The meeting convened over 100 participants and provided a forum ofglobally-recognized importance devoted to Insecticide-treated bed nets(ITN) programme implementation.
Pakistan received the award for distribution of anti-mosquito nets amongpeople under a limited budget approved by the Alliance for MalariaPrevention. Under the campaign, 239,132,9 anti-mosquito nets weredistributed among 104,4694 households in 11 districts of the country,including five from Balochistan and three each in Khyber Pakhtonkhwa andSindh.
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The anti-mosquito nets worth Rs 1.1 billion were distributed among thefamilies.
The meeting provided a vital opportunity for sharing experiences andresearch results, and mobilizing partnerships around identified gaps forachieving and sustaining ITN universal coverage objectives.
The Alliance for Malaria Prevention was established in 2004. Thepartnership meets weekly on a country-focused conference call to discussprogress and challenges in achieving targets in ITN campaign countries. AMPalso organizes an annual two-day partners’ meeting in February each year.
