PMI May 2017 E-Newsletter

Announcements

PMI's 11th Annual Report to Congress Released

The U.S. President's Malaria Initiative's (PMI's) Eleventh Annual Report to Congress describes the U.S. Government's leadership in the fight against malaria. More than 6.8 million deaths have been averted through working with host-country governments, donors, multilateral agencies, non-governmental organizations, and academic and research partners. PMI is working with partners toward the achievement of the bold vision of a world without malaria.

New Country in Focus: Zambia

Zambia is in its tenth year as a PMI focus country. The vision of Zambia’s current National Malaria Strategic Plan is to achieve progress toward a “malaria-free Zambia” through equitable access to quality-assured, cost-effective malaria prevention and control interventions that are delivered close to the household.

In the News

Lifting the Burden of Malaria

This year, malaria will kill more than 400,000 people around the world. The vast majority will be kids in sub-Saharan Africa. These video vignettes show how Zambians are fighting the disease with help from PMI and other partners.

U.S. President's Malaria Initiative’s Strategic Effort to Reduce the Threat of Emergence and Spread of Multidrug-Resistant Malaria

A case study published in the New England Journal of Medicine titled, “Emergence of Indigenous Artemisinin-Resistant Plasmodium falciparum in Africa," details an individual case of delayed clearance of malaria parasites (an early sign of drug resistance) after a patient was treated with an artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACT), the most effective antimalarial medicine available today.

Publications

Pregnant Women and Infants as Sentinel Populations to Monitor Prevalence of Malaria: Results of Pilot Study in Lake Zone of Tanzania

Analysing Trends and Forecasting Malaria Epidemics in Madagascar Using a Sentinel Surveillance Network: a Web-based Application

Species Identification and Resistance Status of Anopheles gambiae s.l. (Diptera: Culicidae) Mosquitoes in Guinea

Country Activities

Zambian Community Health Workers Serve as Lifelines to Malaria Services

Frontline health workers like Adrian Banda are often the first, and sometimes only, providers of health services essential to child and maternal survival like diagnosing and treating malaria.

In Madagascar, Collaboration Builds Capacity in IRS

In Madagascar, where the entire population is at risk of contracting malaria, the PMI Africa Indoor Residual Spraying (AIRS) Project is building the capacity of the government to deliver high-quality spraying through trainings and collaborative meetings.

PMI Helps Ethiopia Clean Up Hazardous Waste

To help Ethiopia safely dispose of DDT, the PMI AIRS Project facilitated training, collection, transboundary permits, offshore shipment, and incineration of the waste.

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Photo credit: Sarah Hoibak, VectorWorks, Courtesy of Photoshare