Table 1. Identified RIs for malaria elimination.
| Initiative | Background | Website URL |
|---|---|---|
| ALMA | ALMA is a coalition of 49 African heads of state and government working to eliminate malaria by 2030. | http://alma2030.org |
| AMI and RAVREDA | AMI is a regional program implemented in 11 Amazon Basin and Central American countries that are also members of the RAVREDA and includes ministries of health and technical partners working together to support regional malaria progress. | http://www.usaidami.org |
| APLMA | APLMA is an affiliation of 22 Asian and Pacific heads of government formed to accelerate progress against malaria and to eliminate it in the entire region by 2030. | http://aplma.org |
| APMEN | APMEN is a network of 18 national malaria control programs and institutional partners in the Asia Pacific region committed to working towards malaria elimination. | http://apmen.org |
| Malaria-free Arabian Peninsula Initiative | The Malaria-free Arabian Peninsula Initiative is a consortium of 6 countries based within the GCC working collaboratively to eliminate malaria on the Arabian Peninsula, with a particular focus on highly endemic Yemen and the Yemeni–Saudi Arabian border. | http://sgh.org.sa/en-us/technicalprograms/infictiousdiseases/initiativearabianpeninsulafreeofmalaria.aspx |
| E8 Regional Initiative | E8 is a coordinated, 8-country effort to achieve the goal of eliminating malaria in 4 southern Africa countries by 2020 (Botswana, Namibia, South Africa, and Swaziland) and to subsequently pave the way for elimination in 4 more by 2030 (Angola, Mozambique, Zambia, and Zimbabwe). | http://malariaelimination8.org/ |
| EMMIE | EMMIE is a consortium of 9 countries and technical partners aiming to achieve malaria elimination in the Mesoamerican subregion and on the island of Hispaniola by 2020. The RI utilizes a cash-on-delivery model to promote and incentivize an accelerated approach to malaria elimination. | http://www.theglobalfund.org/en/portfolio/applicant/?loc=QRA&k=564e7944-7380-4c21-aa31-893ec3429dcf |
| Mekong Malaria Elimination Hub (formerly ERAR) | ERAR was a coordinated 6-state effort across the GMS, including Yunnan, to immediately respond to and contain drug-resistant Plasmodium falciparum malaria. The new regional hub supports efforts to eliminate P. falciparum malaria from the GMS by 2025, and all species of human malaria by 2030, in collaboration with RAI. | http://www.who.int/malaria/areas/greater_mekong/en/ |
| MOSASWA (formerly LSDI) | MOSASWA is a trilateral partnership between Mozambique, South Africa, and Swaziland that aims to achieve zero local transmission in Swaziland, South Africa, and Maputo province by 2020 and pre-elimination status in the remainder of southern Mozambique by 2025. | n/a |
| RAI | RAI is a coordinated 5-country partnership that aims to avert the spread of artemisinin resistance and accelerate elimination of P. falciparum malaria in the GMS countries (excepting Yunnan), in collaboration with the ERAR. | http://www.raifund.org/ |
Abbreviations: ALMA, African Leaders Malaria Alliance; AMI, Amazon Malaria Initiative; APLMA, Asia Pacific Leaders Malaria Alliance; APMEN, Asia Pacific Malaria Elimination Network; E8, Elimination 8; EMMIE, Malaria Elimination in Mesoamerica and the Island of Hispaniola; ERAR, Emergency Response to Artemisinin Resistance; GCC, Gulf Cooperation Council; GMS, Greater Mekong Subregion; LSDI, Lubombo Spatial Development Initiative; MOSASWA, Initiative for Malaria Elimination in Southern Mozambique, South Africa and Swaziland; n/a, not available; RAI, Regional Artemisinin-resistance Initiative; RAVREDA, Amazon Network for the Surveillance of Antimalarial Drug Resistance; RI, regional initiative.