Information and Malaria Elimination

Literature for malaria is voluminous. A beginner as well as the old timers find a deluge of information and more are still in the investigation and writing. People usually loose tract of the important information for malaria elimination. There are so many information that misleads, or more appropriately, detracts the malaria worker. These information, if not properly filtered, will make the focus of work deviate from the proper activity to implement. There are so many research that are very technical but cannot be applied in the community. There is already useful and appropriate information enough to eliminate the malaria in the community. What is sorely lacking are the skilled persons to implement the necessary intervention at the proper place and time. Skill in managing the program has to be upgraded. I refer to the skill in handling people as well as the technical skill needed to decide on the proper intervention measure to apply. Program management at different levels of the health system needs different skill. Middle managers has to be equipt with the proper technical and human resource management skills. He or she has to be technically skilled to analyze malaria data as well as in motivating, organizing, supervising and monitoring workers. Leadership skill has to be acquired too.
Malaria control will not be successful if the human resource will not be guided properly. There is enough tools to eliminate malaria. There are effective medicines and insecticide, nets to prevent man-mosquito contact, information when and where to apply intervention, rapid diagnostic test for the hard to access areas and transportation to reach these areas. WE HAVE ALL THE MEANS TO ELIMINATE MALARIA. WE ONLY NEED TO APPLY THEM PROPERLY. AND IT ALL DEPENDS ON HUMAN WHO MANAGES THE RESOURCES.