What is Malaria Competence?

[Phil]

Here is the Constellation definition of 'AIDS Competence'.

When individuals, families and communities openly acknowledge that HIV/AIDS is a matter that concerns them, they act to prevent its effects, and mobilise in their environment the support they need to maintain the quality of their lives.
In an AIDS Competent society, we - as people in families, in communities, in organisations and in policy making - act from strength:
• to acknowledge the reality of HIV and AIDS,
• to build our capacity to respond,
• to reduce our vulnerability and risk,
• to allow everyone to live out their full potential, and
• to share our experience with others

We are supporting communities as they apply a modification of the AIDS Competence Process to malaria. But how would we define Malaria Competence? Is it simply a matter of replacing HIV/AIDS by Malaria or do we need to change the emphasis, or even the direction of the defintion?

I would welcome the advice of those who have much greater experience of malaria than I have.

Phil