National Malaria Strategic Plan (NMSP) of Senegal: 2021-2025

Senegal was deeply inspired by the WHO publication of Global Technical Strategy for Malaria 2016–2030 to develop the  ‘Plan Stratégique National de Lutte Contre le Paludisme (PNLP) au Sénégal 2021 – 2025’. Strong involvement of partners in the design of the document was noted. Despite the particular context of the year 2020 strongly marked by the coronavirus pandemic, actors from all sides in a beautiful spirit of interdisciplinarity and multisectorality, contributed decisively to the development of the National Malaria Strategic Plan (NMSP). The results obtained demonstrate the great capacity of the health system to adapt, its resistance, and its endurance.

The political commitment of the country’s authorities to move towards the elimination of malaria in the 2030 horizon remains more relevant than ever. The strategic plan we are going to validate is in continuity of the 2016-2020 plan, in accordance with the vision of Mr. President of the Republic to make Senegal an emerging country without malaria. Senegal, for effective implementation of the NMSP 2021-2025, can count on the support of the development partners who have always magnified the commitment of the government and health personnel, for a mobilization of resources for the overall financing of this plan.

There is no doubt that an important milestone will be reached at the time of the evaluation in 2025, why not the transition to pre-elimination over the entire extent of the national territory, particularly in the regions of Tambacounda, Kédougou, and Kolda which continues to bear the bulk of the burden of malaria in the country.