Isdell:Flowers Cross Border Malaria Initiative
The Isdell:Flowers Cross Border Malaria Initiative is committed to eliminating malaria in remote, hard-to-reach communities along the borders of Angola, Namibia, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Focusing at the community level, we strengthen a network of malaria volunteers to deliver malaria education, preventive, and treatment services.
Working Across Borders to Eliminate Malaria
We believe a regional approach is needed to eliminate malaria, and that a country’s success is linked to its neighbors’. By working in under-served border communities, the initiative aims to halt transmission across national borders.
Isdell:Flowers project sites are comprised of remote, hard to reach communities with little access to health services. People living in border communities regularly cross back and forth over national lines to see family or attend cultural or religious events, often bringing the malaria parasite with them. Working with communities and national ministries on both sides of the border is essential to achieving malaria elimination.
Isdell:Flowers project sites are comprised of remote, hard to reach communities with little access to health services. People living in border communities regularly cross back and forth over national lines to see family or attend cultural or religious events, often bringing the malaria parasite with them. Working with communities and national ministries on both sides of the border is essential to achieving malaria elimination.
Our Strategy: Mobilizing Communities
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The Isdell: Flowers Cross Border Malaria Initiative is comprised of more than 1,500 community malaria volunteers. Each volunteer works closely with households in their communities to provide malaria education and social and behavior change communication.
Volunteers encourage families to sleep under bed nets, and to seek care and treatment when they are sick with a fever. Volunteers also play a critical role in distributing bed nets and encouraging families to accept indoor residual spraying to prevent malaria.
Many families living in border communities live far away from health posts or hospitals. Trained community volunteers are able to conduct malaria tests and administer treatment, and therefore increase access to vital health care.
The Isdell: Flowers Cross Border Malaria Initiative is comprised of more than 1,500 community malaria volunteers. Each volunteer works closely with households in their communities to provide malaria education and social and behavior change communication.
Volunteers encourage families to sleep under bed nets, and to seek care and treatment when they are sick with a fever. Volunteers also play a critical role in distributing bed nets and encouraging families to accept indoor residual spraying to prevent malaria.
Many families living in border communities live far away from health posts or hospitals. Trained community volunteers are able to conduct malaria tests and administer treatment, and therefore increase access to vital health care.
The Role of Community Leaders
Community leaders, including village headmen and clergy, are present, trusted, and respected. They extend the reach of existing national health services and use their experiential knowledge of the local context to identify and take action against malaria.
The Isdell:Flowers Cross Border Malaria Initiative trains and mobilizes headmen and clergy to facilitate community action. These community leaders are responsible for selecting malaria volunteers for their communities, and open the door to Isdell:Flowers program managers and field officers who are responsible for program supervision.
The Isdell:Flowers Cross Border Malaria Initiative trains and mobilizes headmen and clergy to facilitate community action. These community leaders are responsible for selecting malaria volunteers for their communities, and open the door to Isdell:Flowers program managers and field officers who are responsible for program supervision.
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