how we work

As a representative of regional leaders, APLMA has unique authority to engage all levels of government.

Much of the region is at a crossroads for malaria and other communicable diseases. Because diseases don’t recognize national borders, no one country can defeat them by itself. A regional response is required.
By collaborating, countries can tackle these threats to their health systems in a harmonized way.

APLMA unites 22 governments in Asia-Pacific by convening senior officials beyond health, monitoring and reporting on progress and bottlenecks and facilitating cross-border collaboration, to devise and execute strategic solutions for the region. Upholding political commitment is imperative across all sectors of society, from Heads of States, Government Ministries, international bodies and multilateral institutions, to corporate leaders, academia, civil society, thought leaders and influencers.

Uphold political commitment and track progress to end malaria by 2030 from leaders across all sectors of society, from Heads of States, Government Ministries, international bodies and multilateral institutions to corporate leaders, academia, civil society, thought leaders and influencers.

APLMA draws on its mandate from the East Asia Summit leaders to build health diplomacy across borders and sectors, strengthening and maintaining collaboration infrastructure towards a malaria-free Asia-Pacific by 2030.

Eliminating malaria requires that each of the nations it afflicts have a comprehensive and integrated strategy, starting with a detailed and fully budgeted national plan. But a plan is just the starting point. Leaders need to empower their respective agencies and officials to orchestrate the coordination required to see the plan through.

Together with APMEN, our joint Secretariat supports national malaria programs and produces the evidence and innovation critical to eliminating malaria.

We monitor opportunities, bottlenecks, and achievements, compiling them into a Leaders Dashboard of country-level progress reviewed annually at a Senior Officials Meeting to determine what course of action each country needs to take to meet the goal of eliminating malaria by 2030.

APLMA tracks whether countries have the resources they need and helps formulate policies that coordinate efforts across ministries and facilitate cooperation, whether bilateral, sub-regional or regional.

Timely access to vital malaria commodities can hasten elimination of this disease in the Asia-Pacific. These include diagnostic tools, treatments for drug-resistant malaria, and new tools for controlling mosquito populations.

But several barriers stand in the way. The region needs a better view of the pipeline of innovations and a clearer understanding of how existing and new commodities can support its malaria response. Unless physical and regulatory bottlenecks are eased, adoption of these new tools will be delayed, slowing down the prevention, detection and treatment of new cases.

We cut through today’s cluttered public health landscape, working to fast-track new solutions and unblock the bottlenecks which prevent life-saving solutions from reaching those in need.

APLMA facilitates partnerships to sustain access to new and existing tools to prevent, detect and treat malaria. We also focus on ensuring countries in the region have access to quality medicine and strive to provide universal health coverage.

Domestic funding for malaria in Asia Pacific has doubled since 2012. We must maintain this momentum and ensure financial and programmatic sustainability of malaria interventions in every country.

Through a tailored engagement strategy with governments, The Alliance works to demonstrate the economic case for malaria elimination linking it to broader health and economic goals. Financing for Universal Health Coverage and social health insurance schemes must include funds for communicable diseases, including malaria.

At the same time, external grant funding is still critical for malaria elimination in the region, and engage with partners and countries for it to be maintained, and/or gradually transitioned.

The Asia Pacific Leaders Malaria Alliance (APLMA) and Asia Pacific Malaria Elimination Network (APMEN) are partners working towards the elimination of malaria in the Asia-Pacific by 2030.

Progress against malaria is one of this century’s greatest public health successes. Over the past ten years, the countries of the Asia-Pacific region have reduced cases of malaria by more than half, putting them on a positive course towards the 2030 goal.

But 2.5 billion people in the region remain at risk. In some areas, malaria is staging a comeback-aided now by the Covid-19 pandemic, which is diverting attention and resources. It is imperative that these threats get urgent attention and that the region’s gains aren’t wasted.

APLMA and APMEN are working together to generate evidence, build capacity and raise the awareness and commitment of our stakeholders to ensure the region’s progress towards eliminating malaria by 2030 remains on track.

With a joint secretariat headquartered in the regional hub of Singapore to facilitate cross-border collaboration, APLMA and APMEN support government efforts to eliminate malaria across the region by mobilising innovations and tailored solutions across our stakeholders.

We place particular focus on the region’s most vulnerable communities, where the burden is the highest and the need to redress malaria progress is the greatest.

Doing so helps strengthen health systems in those communities and across the region to beat malaria today—and other communicable diseases in the future.Together, APLMA and APMEN stand committed to making the preventable burden of malaria a thing of the past. Now is the time to complete what we started.

Asia Pacific Malaria Elimination Roadmap; Click here to see report