2023 World Mosquito Day: Afrihealth Optonet Association (AHOA) supports the RBM Partnership to End Malaria

Dear Malaria and Health Partners and Stakeholders,  

On this occasion of World Mosquito Day, the Afrihealth Optonet Association (AHOA) supports the Roll-Back Malaria (RBM) Partnership in encouraging all stakeholders to use the below messaging to present a unified voice across the community on World Mosquito Day:  

 Mosquitoes remain the world’s deadliest creatures, responsible for over 600,000 deaths a year according to the 2022 World Malaria Report.  

 The ability of the Anopheles mosquito and malaria parasite to constantly evolve has led to drug and insecticide resistance, reducing the effectiveness of existing tools.  

 Warmer temperatures caused by climate change are extending transmission seasons and shifting the geographical ranges where malaria-carrying mosquitoes can survive and spread disease, creating new problems for populations who were not previously exposed to malaria.

 

 Innovation is key to sustaining the progress made in the battle against malaria. Since 2000, sustained investment and global collaboration has resulted in the prevention of 2 billion malaria cases and the preservation of 11.7 million lives, but a combined force of biological threats and climate change have put this progress at risk.

 

 Eradicating malaria requires more than the current set of tools and treatments. To address these challenges and accelerate progress towards ending malaria, a robust malaria innovation pipeline has been developed through years of research and development. However, lack of funding continues to hold countries back from implementing the tools and lifesaving technologies to the world’s most vulnerable populations.  

 It’s imperative that the global community continues to innovate to address drug and insecticide resistance, enhance prevention strategies, improve diagnostics, and accelerate research and development to achieve malaria eradication.  

 Innovation directly translates into saving lives. By investing in research and development, we can uncover groundbreaking solutions and tools to prevent, detect, and treat malaria while simultaneously deploying interventions strategically and in combination with existing preventative measures.  

 We all have a role to play. This World Mosquito Day, we call on governments, organizations, partners, and individuals to support research and innovation to create a malaria free world.  

Afrihealth Optonet Association (AHOA) - winner of the SDG 3 – Good Health and Wellbeing Champion Award is a community-focused civil society organizations (CSOs) international Movement/Network Coalition and Think-tank deeply engaged in promoting evidence-based credible actions and support for policies, practices, programmes and interventions that enhance productivity, accountability, transparency, and civil society’s coordination/contributions in gender justice, financial inclusion, equitable access to health, democracy, good governance and human rights; in Society Welfare/Social Safety nets, Development Work/Sustainable Development, Health - including Traditional Complimentary Integrative Health (TCIH)/Ayurvedic Medicine; and in educational, literary, scientific, social, climate change, energy, biodiversity, nutritional/agricultural, cultural, sporting, governance, human rights, and charitable intervention(s)/purpose(s). AHOA’s mandate includes Building an inclusive and broad movement for Health and Sustainable Development; Creating avenues to influence the design and implementation of policies, practices, programmes and interventions; Promoting coordination, information exchange and harmonization among the civil society and stakeholder groups across the world; and Promoting citizen involvement, leadership and accountability mechanisms in the implementation of respective interventions.  

AHOA has a global membership/partnership of over 1,900 (One Thousand, Nine Hundred) organizations mainly from the global South and promotes the ‘One Health’ paradigm where Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being. AHOA uses partnership/collaboration, advocacy, research/evidence generation, capacity development, outreaches, monitoring and evaluation (M&E) as strategies. AHOA’s activities/interventions are for the benefit of rural and poor urban dwellers, marginalized, vulnerable and disadvantaged populations of women, children, adolescents, persons with disability, persons in conflict-affected areas, the poor, elderly, rural, disadvantaged and vulnerable persons, orphans and the elderly.  

The AHOA CSOs Movement/Network Coalition and Think-tank works to explore the nexus between and within the following sectors:

1.      Health - including UHC, PHC, Reproductive Health, PHC, HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis (TB), Malaria, NCDs, NTDs, Infectious and Communicable diseases, Vaccines/Immunization and COVID-19; 

2.      Energy and Environment - including biodiversity, environment, ecosystems, renewable energy, energy efficiency, conservation and climate change (BEEREEECCC);

3.      Nutrition/micronutrients and Food Security;

4.      Gender, Democracy, Good Governance, Peace, Human Security and Human Rights; and

5.      Sustainable Development across regions, populations, communities and generations  

AHOA partners with the Society for Conservation and Sustainability of Energy and Environment in Nigeria (SOCSEEN). AHOA has members/local Chapters in Nigeria’s 36 States and Federal Capital Abuja, National Chapters in some countries, sub-regional Chapters in North Africa, West and Central Africa, East and Southern Africa; and in America, Asia, Caribbean, Europe and Oceania regions. AHOA has a Consultative Status at the United Nations ECOSOC; and an Accredited Observer status at the UNEP/United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA).  

Best regards,

Uzodinma  

Dr. Uzodinma Adirieje, CMC, CMTF, FIMC, FIMS, FNAE, FASI, FAHOA

CEO/Evaluation Expert and Lead Facilitator/Trainer,

Afrihealth Optonet Association (AHOA) - CSOs Global Movement for Health and Development  

(Winner of the SDG 3 – Good Health and Wellbeing Champion Award)

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