Ahead of World Malaria Day, the Malawi National Malaria Control Programme and the Malawi Liverpool Wellcome Research Programme launched a digital platform to provide healthcare workers with real-time access to malaria treatment guidelines, mlw.mw reports. Supported by the EU-funded Mitigating Antimalarial Resistance Consortium for Southern and East Africa, the MAGICapp aims to combat drug-resistant malaria by standardising evidence-based clinical responses nationwide.
Meanwhile, civil society organisations operating under the Collaborative Advocacy Action Plan met with the Parliamentary Committee on Health to demand increased domestic financing, who.int reports. The coalition urged lawmakers to raise the proposed MK1.02 trillion health budget to meet the 15 percent African Union Abuja Declaration target and World Health Organisation per capita benchmarks.