“The Clinton Health Access Initiative (“CHAI”) is seeking rigorous and innovative operational research proposals that will test new solutions to improving access to and targeting of effective malaria treatment in order to inform policy and practice at national and global levels. Through funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and in collaboration with the Roll Back Malaria Partnership, CHAI is currently supporting a number of operational research projects to advance that goal. This Request for Proposals (RfP) is intended to identify and fund a set of additional high-impact studies that can help to transform malaria treatment policy and practice. In total, $1.5 million of funding is available for additional studies, with which CHAI hopes to commission as many high quality proposals as possible.
The objective of this RfP is to identify and contract additional operational research studies designed to:
1. Develop and test new solutions that address key outstanding impediments to effective and rational malaria treatment in the context of highly subsidized artemisinin-based combination therapies (ACTs); and
2. Facilitate appropriate and substantial changes in policy and practice at the national and global level based on the results of those projects.”
“CHAI’s overarching malaria treatment goal is to ensure that all people with malaria receive and appropriately use a complete dose of ACT. This goal is naturally broken down into four key objectives that are the focus of CHAI’s operational research portfolio:
Access – All people with malaria are able to obtain an effective anti-malarial in a short period of time and pay a reasonable price for that treatment;
Equity – All people, regardless of socioeconomic status, have access to high quality treatment and services;
Targeting – ACTs are provided to patients with confirmed malaria and appropriate alternative treatment/care is provided to those with other illnesses;
Appropriate Use – All patients receive the full appropriate dose for their age/weight and complete the treatment according to recommendation…”
Proposals will be accepted through June 1, 2010 12:00PM Eastern Standard Time.
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