JHU BLOG POST March 20, 2013
Since the national launch of Malaria Safe on November 29, 2012, in
Tanzania, Prime Minister Hon. Mizengo Pinda has championed the role of
the private sector in the country's malaria control strategy, working
with Voices to engage stakeholders at all the highest levels.
The Prime Minister, who presided at the launch, has since appointed a
Malaria Safe contact person within his office, written letters to 32
Tanzanian companies to encourage them to participate in the Malaria
Safe program, and requested additional public funding for malaria
control from various government entities. One of these is the Minister
of Regional and Local Government Authority (RALG), whom the Prime
Minister directed to allocate funds for malaria. Another is Tanzania
Parliamentarians Against Malaria (TAPAMA), a parliamentary group that
will meet with Voices next month to address district-level malaria
funding gaps under the direction of the Prime Minister, in
collaboration with four committees--Social Welfare, Community
Development, HIV/AIDS and Local Government. A third is the Association
of Local Authorities of Tanzania (ALAT). The Prime Minister has also
written a letter to the Minister of Health and Social Welfare and to
the Minister of Tourism and Natural Resources to promote Malaria Safe
companies and to procure malaria resources. Finally, the Prime
Minister has sent letters of directives to all Regional and District
Commissioners to make sure that local governments increases malaria
funding before district budgets are set up early this year.
For his strong support, Hon. Mizengo Pinda (pictured above, at right)
was invited as the guest of honor at last month's United Against
Malaria gala dinner in Johannesburg, an official event of the 2013
Orange Africa Cup of Nations. He was joined by South African Minister
of Health Aaron Motsoaledi (pictured above, at left) and other
dignitaries, business leaders and celebrities who are working
diligently to create a malaria-free future in Africa. "I'm personally
very excited because the Malaria Safe initiative that we launched last
year in Tanzania is already bringing about some very good results," he
told audience members. "Malaria can't be fought alone with the budget
of the government. We've got to get everybody to contribute a little
bit. Through the private sector, it's working very well, because most
of them have taken up the program of providing mosquito nets, etc. It
can be done."--
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