Advocacy

Table of Contents   Introduction Thai-Burma Border Scaling Up Improving Access China-Burma Border India-Burma Border Advocacy Next Steps

Cross-border health care delivery creates many barriers, not least of which is the complex web of international regulations governing the purchase of the materials that make for successful interventions. Planet Care/GHAP continues to advocate for cheaper high quality supplies and antimalarials for our partners on all borders. Falling per-treatment costs will enable PC/GHAP and our partners to further leverage donor support to expand effective malaria control interventions to the most vulnerable populations along Burma's borders.

GHAP volunteers and our partners are showing the world that malaria control run by and for indigenous people in the poorest and remotest areas of southeast Asia is possible, including among IDPs living in areas of active conflict.

The successes of the malaria control program have been presented at numerous conferences, including the Global Health Council, Johns Hopkins University, Emory University Conference on Health and Human Rights, and the conference on Infectious diseases in the border regions of southeast Asia co-sponsored by GHAP.

Presentations have also been made at numerous US medical schools, schools of public health, and professional organizations including but not limited to: University of Southern California, UCLA, Johns Hopkins, Montefiore Medical Center, George Washington University, Mount Sinai School of Medicine (New York), Physicians for Social Responsibility, MSF, and PATH.

Results from malaria surveys and the malaria program have also been accepted for publication in peer-reviewed journals, and have been included in briefing reports to the US Congress and UK House of Commons.

Planet Care/GHAP is also at the forefront of exploring associations between malaria and exposure to human rights violations, such as forced migration, forced labor, landmines, and food insecurity.

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