Curbing malaria through the Tubiteho (Let’s Take Care of Them) health activity in Burundi
Pathfinder’s USAID-funded Tubiteho program reduced malaria fatalities in six provinces by partnering with Burundi’s government to mobilize and train community health workers on malaria case management in their communities.
This brief describes how Tubiteho built on a malaria treatment strategy introduced by the government in 2011, which engaged community health workers to test and treat malaria, pneumonia, and diarrhea in children younger than five. Given its success in preventing malaria deaths among children, Tubiteho expanded this strategy to test and treat adults in four provinces. Because community health workers were seeing patients soon after they became symptomatic, at their homes and in their communities, they were able to prevent malaria from causing severe illness and death.
