CAME takes part in first HIV-malaria Advocacy Workshop
7 June 2007
CAME met with partners from Cameroon, Mozambique, Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia, Uganda, Mali and Ghana at the workshop which was organised jointly by Malaria Consortium, Johns Hopkins University Center for Communication Programs and WHO in Lusaka, Zambia on 21st-23rd April 2007.
The three-day meeting gathered advocates from nine African countries and international organisations as well as representatives from WHO and Zambian government.
The main objective of the workshop was to build new links between malaria and HIV/AIDS networks across the continent and to explore the importance of advocacy for common implementation platforms between the two diseases through joint malaria and HIV interventions such as clinical settings, supply chain management systems and community-based care networks.
Participants looked into the linkages between the two diseases, the common blockages and successful joint programmes.
The meeting included presentations and discussions as well as field visits to programs implementing HIV and malaria activities.
The workshop concluded with a common commitment to take messages back to each of the participating countries and to work more closely together and with other networks, and the formation of a new Africa-wide network- Mobilising Against Malaria in Africa (MAMA) movement which released a statement to the G8 in June 2007. To read a copy of the statement, please click here
