Malaria Social and Behaviour Change during the COVID-19 Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has wreaked havoc on malaria control and elimination efforts. Modeling predictions suggested the annual malaria death toll in sub-Saharan Africa could double because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The World Health Organization (WHO) urged countries not to scale back their planned malaria prevention, diagnostic, and treatment activities during the COVID-19 pandemic or the gains made in saving lives from malaria and other diseases over the past 20 years may be lost.
Malaria SBC programs had to think afresh and re-strategize to tackle new limitations to reach audiences and convince them to change their behaviors to prevent and manage malaria. Malaria SBC workers increased their efforts while also closely following COVID-19 guidelines.
This collection includes just a few of their stories.

- Malaria Social and Behaviour Change during COVID-19 Case Study: Click, Share, Engage
- Measures to Ensure the Continuity of the Response to Malaria in the Americas during the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Health-protective Behaviour, Social Media Usage and Conspiracy Belief during the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency
- Stigma during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Malaria Social and Behaviour Change Program Guidance in the Context of COVID-19 Pandemic
- Four Things I Learned About Behavior Change During a Pandemic
- YouTube as a Source of Information on the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Actions to Support Media, Enhance Access to Information, and Leverage Digital Technologies in the Fight Against the Pandemic
- Digital and Social Media for Social and Behaviour Change Communication
- Practice Guide: Behaviour Change Communication during Crisis
- Malaria Social and Behaviour Change during COVID-19 Case Study: The Call of the Trumpet, Ethiopia
- Talking to Community: Behavioural Change in the Age of COVID-19
- Malaria Social and Behaviour Change during COVID-19 Case Study: Inside the Jungle, Cambodia
- Malaria Social and Behaviour Change during COVID-19 Case Study: The Mobile Classroom, Nigeria
- Providing Maternal Health Services during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Nepal
September 9, 2021