Malaria Action Program for States (MAPS)

Malaria Action Program for States (MAPS) is a comprehensive five-year malaria program to improve malaria control in Nigeria. The aim of the program is to increase coverage and use of life-saving malaria interventions in support of the Nigeria National Malaria Strategic Plan and the National Malaria Control Program (NMCP).

This $65 million, USAID funded program will complement USAID's new Target State High Impact Project (TSHIP) and has begun initial efforts in three target states, Cross River State, Nassarawa and Zamfara. The project will expand to approximately four additional states over the life of the program (2010 - 2015).

The consortium implementing the program is led by FHI in partnership with Health Partners International (HPI), GRID Consulting Nigeria and Malaria Consortium.

The main outputs of the program focus on pregnant women and children under 5 years of age and include:

  • Supporting the scale up of proven malaria interventions including;
    •                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             - Attaining and maintaining a high level of insecticide treaded bednets
                - Improving malaria case management at facility and community level
                - Expanding use of diagnostics
                - Providing consistent delivery of intermittent preventive treatment to pregnant women
                - Promoting positive behaviours through information, education and communication and
                  behaviour change communication activities, facilitating community mobilisation
  • Strengthening the management capacity of the State Ministry of Health and Local Government Area health personnel to provide oversight of malaria interventions
  • Improving capacity of the focus states and the NMCP to monitor and evaluate malaria interventions and data to guide programmatic decisions, optimally at national, state and LGA levels.
HPI (working with GRID) is responsible for strengthening the management capacity of the State Ministry of Health and Local Government Area health personnel to provide oversight of malaria interventions. Our approach includes a long term team based both at the federal and state levels supporting training, supervision and financial management capacity building.



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