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Viewing cable 07DAKAR944, GLOBAL FUND TO FIGHT AIDS, TUBERCULOSIS AND MALARIA, PHASE

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07DAKAR944 2007-04-27 15:12 2011-08-24 16:30 UNCLASSIFIED Embassy Dakar
VZCZCXYZ0008
PP RUEHWEB

DE RUEHDK #0944/01 1171512
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
P 271512Z APR 07
FM AMEMBASSY DAKAR
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 8193
INFO RUEHGV/USMISSION GENEVA 0815
UNCLAS DAKAR 000944 
 
SIPDIS 
 
SIPDIS 
 
STATE FOR S/GAC - SALPINI AND JEFFERS, AF/EPS AND AF/W 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: EAID KHIV TBIO SOCI SG
SUBJECT: GLOBAL FUND TO FIGHT AIDS, TUBERCULOSIS AND MALARIA, PHASE 
TWO RENEWAL OF SENEGAL'S MALARIA GRANT SNG-405-G05-M 
 
REF: STATE 027470 
 
SUMMARY 
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1.  Senegal's National Malaria Control Program (PNLP) is using this 
Global Fund grant to introduce new artemesinin-based combination 
therapy (ACT) drugs for treatment of uncomplicated malaria, provide 
intermittent preventive treatment for pregnant women, and distribute 
insecticide-treated bednets.  We recommend that the Global Fund 
continue to support the procurement of ACTs; insist on the 
implementation of a pharmaco-vigilance plan; support revitalization 
of the National Malaria Coordination Committee; and insist that 
bednets be priced to ensure availability to vulnerable groups.  This 
grant complements the President's Malaria Initiative (PMI), and 
Mission recommends that the USG support renewal.  END SUMMARY. 
 
GRANT PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT: 
SENEGAL MALARIA GRANT SNG-405-GO3-M 
----------------------------------- 
2.  The Ministry of Health's National Malaria Control Program (PNLP) 
is the principal recipient of this grant.  The PNLP's main 
activities with this grant include the introduction of the new 
artemesinin-based combination therapy (ACT) drugs for treatment of 
uncomplicated malaria, intermittent preventive treatment for 
pregnant women, and distribution of insecticide-treated bednets 
(ITNs). 
 
3.  Senegal has been selected as a focus country for the USG's 
President's Malaria Initiative (PMI).  It is important to the USG 
and to the PNLP that PMI and Global Fund activities complement each 
other and are harmonized in order to achieve the best results.  PMI 
counts the Global Fund as an important partner in Senegal, and we 
hope that the Global Fund will continue to fund this and future 
malaria grants in-country. 
 
ACTS AND MALARIA TREATMENT 
-------------------------- 
4.  In January 2006, the PNLP received the first 3 million doses of 
ACTs (half the total quantity ordered under this grant).  Because 
expiry dates range from October to December 2007, there was concern 
regarding a potential over-estimate in quantity, so delivery of the 
second half of the order was stopped.  However, a recent 
USG-supported quantification exercise showed that the current stocks 
should be exhausted before any expiration, and that the remaining 3 
million doses can be ordered for delivery from the manufacturer at 
this time. 
 
5.  Before the drugs arrived, the PNLP developed a plan for the 
introduction of ACTs at all levels of the health system, including 
at the village level where feasible.  Private pharmacies were also 
given access to the Global Fund ACTs, on the condition that the 
pharmacies sell them to users at the same low price at which the 
public health system sells them.  It is unclear whether all 
pharmacies actually follow this pricing policy, although they do 
obtain the drugs from the Ministry of Health's Central Medical 
Stores at a Global Fund-subsidized price. 
 
6.  At the community level, USAID-supported non-governmental 
organizations (NGOs) assist community health workers to provide 
malaria treatment with ACTs in 186 village health huts in USG focus 
regions; the PNLP reports that nationwide, 552 out of more than 1000 
functional health huts provide the ACT treatment.  In 
non-USAID-supported districts, the PNLP funds its district-level 
health structures to implement community-based activities rather 
than doing so via NGO accompaniment.  The PNLP also gives grants to 
NGOs, but only for promotion and social mobilization activities. 
 
RECOMMENDATIONS 
--------------- 
7.  We recommend that the Global Fund continue to support 
procurement of ACTs through the life of this grant to ensure 
national availability of these drugs.  Under PMI, the USG will 
continue to support health worker and village volunteer training to 
properly and effectively use the drugs provided by the Global Fund. 
Under PMI, NGO assistance to health huts for treatment using these 
ACTs will also expand to 1058 health huts nationwide. 
We also recommend that the Global Fund insist on the implementation 
of a pharmaco-vigilance plan during the second phase to ensure 
continued drug quality and efficacy. 
Based on the extremely successful experience with NGOs in training 
and supporting community health workers to treat malaria, we 
recommend that the PNLP increase the scope of such organizations in 
its grants to them, to include treatment activities in addition to 
education and communication activities.  This will complement public 
health services and also reinforce civil society involvement in 
malaria programs. 
 
COORDINATION AND COMMUNICATION 
------------------------------ 
8.  We are pleased to observe improved communication between the 
 
PNLP and the Country Coordinating Mechanism (CCM).  The PNLP made 
important efforts to provide necessary documents before the CCM 
meetings and allowed members more time to review them than in the 
past.  However, there is still insufficient quality of the documents 
which are often quite difficult to read due to extremely small print 
or low quality reproduction.  The documents routinely presented also 
cover a period that is six months behind actual time.  The CCM 
proposed an improved format for principal recipients' presentations 
during CCM meetings, and things seem to be improving. 
 
9.  The National Malaria Coordination Committee, which is intended 
to oversee technical committees and partner coordination, exists but 
has not been functional for the past few years.  However, as Senegal 
is receiving considerable resources for malaria control programs 
(PMI, World Bank River Basin Initiative, and Global Fund, among 
others), it is critical to ensure complementary, harmonization and 
efficient use of resources.  PMI will strongly encourage the 
revitalization of this committee, as well as its sub-committees, 
which function as working groups in various technical areas. 
 
RECOMMENDATIONS 
--------------- 
10.  We encourage the Global Fund to support revitalization of the 
National Malaria Coordination Committee, as well as its 
sub-committees, and to encourage the PNLP to make every effort in 
this area.  With the multitude of donors, prices, and distribution 
systems, harmonization is especially needed in the area of ITNs.  A 
working sub-committee under a revitalized national coordination 
committee, as above, could help with this issue.  The Global Fund 
should ask that ITNs provided by the PNLP under this grant are 
effectively targeted to reach the most vulnerable groups, rather 
than sold at a subsidized price to anyone, regardless of 
vulnerability. 
 
RESULTS AND DATA 
---------------- 
11.  In 2006, an evaluation was conducted by a local firm on the 
activities of the first year of this grant.  The evaluation report 
states that the project made significant results in terms of ITN 
ownership (reported at 60 percent) and in terms of use of ACTs at 
the clinical level (with 78 percent of simple malaria cases among 
all ages correctly managed). 66.4 percent of pregnant women 
reportedly received the recommended drug to prevent malaria in 
pregnancy.  In the report, these indicators exceed their targets, 
while the targets are not met for children under five years 
receiving treatment within 24 hours (28 percent), or use of ITNs for 
children under five (45 percent) and pregnant women (32.6 percent). 
 
12.  In the same timeframe as the evaluation, the U.S. Government 
(USAID and CDC), conducted a national Malaria Indicator Survey to 
measure baseline coverage of the PMI interventions.  Though the 
final report has not yet been published, our survey found that 57 
percent of households owned a bednet of some kind, with 36 percent 
of households owning a treated net.  Treated net use was also lower 
in our survey compared to the PNLP's evaluation, at 16 percent and 
17 percent for children and pregnant women, respectively.  Only 11 
percent of children were found to have received treatment within 24 
hours for their last case of fever.  These indicators are in line 
with a reasonable progression since the 2005 DHS and we believe them 
to be the correct ones. 
 
13.  All coverage indicators, by all accounts, are improving over 
time. However, we believe that the true coverage figures are likely 
to be substantially lower than those found in the evaluation, being 
used by the PNLP in its results reporting to the Global Fund. 
 
FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT 
-------------------- 
14.  All documents and information available to us indicate that the 
PNLP has a good disbursement rate and that most of the planned 
activities have been implemented. No recommendations in this area. 
 
FUNCTIONING OF THE CCM 
---------------------- 
15.  Senegal's CCM has 42 members representing virtually all 
government ministries and the presidency, UN health organizations, 
bilateral donor agencies, international NGOs, local faith-based 
organizations, and organizations representing women, youth, people 
living with HIV/AIDS, labor unions, and national business interests. 
 The CCM has made important improvements in its functioning over 
time, developing new terms of reference and reviewing its 
composition and functioning.  These new terms of reference led to 
establishment of a Technical Secretariat which greatly assists the 
CCM in administration and decision-making. It also helps to improve 
coordination among its members and communication with recipients. 
 
16.  The CCM recently received technical assistance to help develop 
monitoring tools and a manual of procedures. This will reinforce CCM 
capacity to better monitor the grants (both this malaria grant and 
Senegal's current HIV/AIDS grant) and ensure partner coordination 
 
and rational use of resources allocated to Senegal. 
 
RECOMMENDATION 
-------------- 
17.  The CCM should ensure the implementation of these tools for the 
grant monitoring and should be more proactive in problem-solving 
toward the principal recipients. 
 
JACOBS