Livingston, Zambia – Under the theme of the Global World Malaria Day, “Malaria Ends With Us: Reinvestment, Rethinking, Relapse”, JC Flowers Foundation has convened its key partners in Isdel: Flowers Border Malaria Initiative (IFCBMI) Roundtable, May 7-9, 2025, compensates for Malvet. The programme, conference, brought together faith and traditional leaders, government representatives, scientists, community advocates, and international partners to stock their work in the midst of a changing malaria landscape.
In her opening speech, “We will respond boldly to the complete storm that threatens the elimination of malaria,” Joy Pumafi, executive director of the African Leader Malaria Alliance (ALMA), is a coalition of African coalition heads working towards elimination of malaria in Africa by 2030, warning of the simultaneous challenges of changing malaria transmission. A humanitarian crisis that disrupts malaria control efforts. Biological resistance of mosquitoes and malaria parasites to insecticides, medications and diagnosis. and the funding gaps exacerbated by recent major cuts in global funding for public health. She urged the people who gathered: “Looking back over the years now, he said, ‘We saw the storm coming, and we chose to wait.’ ”
To spur the cross-sector imagination, the roundtable included a joint session with the Malaria Drug Accelerator (MALDA) Consortium supported by The Gates Foundation, a global drug discovery collaboration of 18 groups working to accelerate the discovery of anti-malarial drugs. In a dialogue between Isdell: Flowers Malaria practitioners and Malda scientists, practitioners shared the complexities of ensuring full intake of malaria treatments that rely on a variety of press factors, including community mobilization and creation of demand, diagnosis and treatment ready, diagnosis and treatment, supply chain management, treatment adaptation, and more. Malda scientists have given us hopeful insight into the innovative malaria treatments currently in the development pipeline. The joint session was Isder’s idea. Dr. Neville Isdel, co-founder of the Flowers Cross-Border Malaria Initiative, and Dr. Kelly Chibale, chairman of African-centric drug discovery and development at the University of Cape Town, have appointed the reality that drug discovery and community implementation are necessary for each other. Chibare concluded the joint session by rigorously naming all essential contributions. “Innovation without access is pointless.”
The keynote speech for the joint session was delivered by Guest of Hon. Zambian Health Minister Elijah J. Man Man Muchima is represented by Dr. Kennedy Lisinpi, permanent secretary of the Ministry of Health’s Technical Services. He said, “Our efforts to eliminate malaria will be in vain if we do not effectively engage with the community. Therefore, we cannot overemphasize our involvement with religious and traditional leaders, which are essential to our agenda of exclusion.”
Her worship Constance Narishebo Muleabai, mayor of Livingston, emphasized the need for involvement of society as a whole. “The elimination of malaria is no longer a distant dream. Action will be a generation to come.
The theme of the important role of “Two Cs – Chiefs and the Church” was repeated repeatedly by Mundandwe, the chief of Zambians of Liuwaplain National Park. Village Head and Isdell: Flowers Malaria Program Field Officer Themba Sibanda, from Zimbabwe, reflected how he used his leadership position to ensure proper net use.
Efforts that avoided an estimated 2.2 billion malaria cases and 12.7 million malaria deaths since 2020, this significant advance on malaria also depends on effective local implementation of funding programs. Isdel co-founder Chris Flowers: Flowers Cross-Border Malaria Initiative, centered around communities affected by malaria in the fight against illness, discusses the fundamental reasons for the initiative’s approach to malaria control and exclusion. ISDELL: Flowers Cross-Border Malaria Initiative Regional Coordinator Constance Nhov and her colleagues Joan Baptista Nero (from the Angola Anglican parish in the heart and south) and Monica Mvura and Savior Casondo (from the Anglican diocese of Lusaka) jointly showcase the importance of community malax leadership. It identifies and resolves barriers to efficient malaria prevention, testing and treatment (cross-border) and supports the optimization of government investments in NET and malaria treatment.
Filmer Vinga of the Anglican Church of Harare described how he was trained as a miner and fisherman, using the proverb “Kczva Kwendebvarum Vanojmurana” (“When a man’s whiskers are on fire, another man comes to the rescue and puts out the fire”) to explain that he was trained as a miner and a fisherman. Highly risky population.
Monitoring the Methodist Church in the Zimbabwe Harare East District contributed to an increase in rapid care for the programme area within the Mudge district in 2023, with care from 60% to 60% in 2024, from 83% to 83% to 91% MALAIA cases, and from 91% in 2024 to 91% in 2024, and from 91% in 2024 to 60% in 2023. 1095 in 2024.
Faith Leaders from the Fire (Advocacy of Faith Leaders for the Elimination of Malaria) Initiative – Bishops of the Anglican Church of Japan in Angola, Mozambique, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe, led by Archbishop Anglican Albert Chama, explained the various multifaceted roles of advocacy. These are explained by the first responders (explained by Pastor Narishwa Imumbani, who prays for enthusiastic people who come to their home and immediately promote rapid diagnostic blood tests for malaria), and local accountability partner (bishop Elias Mponella of Zambia, who is the Gospel subject of the Visi Media the Foy AIDS The AIDS The For the Zambia Gospels (explained by Benjamin Limbo of Namibia, who prompted media attention to the current outbreak of malaria in Namibia).
Throughout the roundtable, there was a dissonance between deep commitment to malaria control and elimination from malaria-affected communities and reducing commitment to continuing fundraising by global partners. It lamented the recent demolition of USAID, particularly the refunds for the US government’s malaria initiative, preventing 1.5 billion people from contracting malaria over the past 20 years. In Africa, children under the age of 5 are present.
ISDELL: Flowes Cross Border Malaria Initiative (IFCBMI) is working to eliminate malaria through mobilization of communities along the shared borders of Angola, Mozambique, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe. IFCBMI believes that malaria can only be eliminated if the most affected person has the knowledge, skills and resources to prevent, treat, and advocate for its elimination. Since 2004, Isdell: Flowes Cross Border Malaria Initiative Partners has been working with the Ministry of Health in collaboration with local faith organizations and networks of community volunteers using a community-based, cross-border, partnership-focused strategy.
