TY - JOUR T1 - End Malaria Faster: Taking Lifesaving Tools Beyond “Access” to “Reach” All People in Need JF - Global Health: Science and Practice JO - GLOB HEALTH SCI PRACT DO - 10.9745/GHSP-D-22-00118 VL - 10 IS - 2 SP - e2200118 AU - Courtney Emerson AU - Jed Meline AU - Anne Linn AU - Julie Wallace AU - Bryan K. Kapella AU - Meera Venkatesan AU - Richard Steketee Y1 - 2022/04/28 UR - http://www.ghspjournal.org/content/10/2/e2200118.abstract N2 - Key MessagesTo effectively address malaria control and elimination worldwide, we must endeavor to “reach the unreached,” to deliver malaria services from the clinic to the community and home.Reach moves beyond access and requires that we have the data to know who are unreached, where they are located, and how to ensure they receive malaria services.Reach can only be achieved with community health workers that are adequately supported and equipped to diagnose and treat malaria in every person in their communities regardless of age.Reach incorporates equity and responsibility for service delivery more expansively.Malaria causes hundreds of millions of infections and kills more than half a million people each year.1 The U.S. President's Malaria Initiative (PMI) works in close partnership with National Malaria Control Programs (NMCPs) and other partners in 24 malaria-endemic African nations and 3 programs in the Greater Mekong subregion to change that.2 PMI recently released its 2021–2026 Strategy End Malaria Faster.3 The Global Fund recently released its new Strategy 2023–2028, which includes a malaria-specific technical strategy for the first time.4 The World Health Assembly also adopted the Update to the Global Technical Strategy and Targets for Malaria 2016–2030 in May 2021.5 Each of these strategies aims to support NMCPs and their partners to deliver lifesaving interventions—such as insecticide-treated nets (ITNs) and indoor residual sprays (IRS) on house walls that kill malaria parasite-carrying mosquitoes, preventive use of antimalarial drugs, and tests and medicines to diagnose and treat malaria. PMI, along with these other key malaria actors, also invests in strengthening the capacity of health workers, laboratories, supply chains, surveillance, and other health system pillars to control and eliminate malaria, save lives, and strengthen global health security.6Historic progress against malaria is threatened. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates there were 241 … ER -