National Malaria Strategic Plan (NMSP) of Malawi: 2023 – 2030

The National Malaria Strategic Plan, 2023-2030, serves as an overarching guide for the National Malaria Control Programme (NMCP) and all partners on implementation of malaria interventions in Malawi for the next 8 years, from 2023 to 2030. The plan has been aligned to the Health Sector Strategic Plan III, 2023-2030 (HSSP III, 2023-2030) both in terms of strategic areas of focus as laid out in the HSSP III Health Benefit Package (HBP) and implementation approach, as an operational strategy for broad HSSP III intents on Malaria.

The NMSP (2023-2030) builds on successes and experiences during the preceding strategic period (NMSP 2017-2022) while also ensuring alignment to both already existing and emerging strategic directions. The plan has been informed particularly by the vision under the Global Technical Strategy (GTS, 2016-2030) for Malaria of a Malaria free world by 2030 to which Malawi committed. The Universal Health Coverage (UHC) Agenda has also implicitly driven the framing of this strategic plan.

This strategic plan reflects intents to address both geographic and financial challenges and inequities when it comes to access to malaria services, by extending service provision to hard-to-reach areas and providing for malaria service provision free of charge at all service delivery points under the public-funded health care system.