 PMI July 2016 E-Newsletter
Announcements
Country
in Focus: Tanzania
View the
new Country in Focus page, which now features Tanzania. With the scale-up of
malaria prevention and treatment interventions, dramatic progress in malaria
control has been made throughout the country. While Mainland Tanzania continues
to focus on malaria control, decreasing malaria prevalence prompted Zanzibar to
adopt a new strategy, which focuses on achieving pre-elimination by 2018.
Blogs
Leveraging Markets for Global Health
Innovations are critical to help the international
development community achieve goals in the fight against malaria, HIV, and
other global health challenges. But inventing new products is not enough. Efficient
markets need to motivate suppliers to manufacture, wholesalers to distribute,
and retailers to sell.
Publications
Feasibility and Effectiveness of mHealth for Mobilizing Households for Indoor Residual Spraying to Prevent Malaria: A Case Study in Mali
Multi-Country Comparison of Delivery Strategies for Mass Campaigns to Achieve Universal Coverage with Insecticide-Treated Nets: What Works Best?
Short Persistence of Bendiocarb Sprayed on Pervious Walls and Its Implication for the Indoor Residual Spray Program in Ethiopia
Country Activities
Improving the Quality of Testing and Treating
Malaria in Tanzania
Up to 40% of all people reported to have malaria in Tanzania did
not receive a confirmatory diagnostic test. Recognizing the importance of
accurate diagnosis, Tanzania is striving to ensure that all suspected malaria
cases are tested using a RDT or microscopy and then treated appropriately.
Ghana Launches Campaign to Deliver
Insecticide-Treated Nets to Schoolchildren
In May, the Ghana Education Service launched a
country-wide campaign to distribute ITNs to 1.2 million children in over 14,000
public and private primary schools in the Volta, Eastern, Central, Western,
Ashanti, and Brong Ahafo regions of the country.
PMI AIRS Malaria Fighter: Dr. Ndombour
Cisse
Dr. Ndombour Gning Cisse began working on the PMI
AIRS Project in Senegal in 2011 as a spray operations coordinator. A few years
later she was promoted to Operations Manager and now leads the management of
spray operations in target districts, working with the National Malaria Control
Program. In 2015, she took on the additional role of AIRS Senegal’s Gender Focal
Person.
EXPLORE MORE STORIES FROM THE
FIELD »
New Resources
Malawi
Impact Evaluation Report [PDF,
4.2MB] and annexes [PDF,
3.8MB]
PMI
Entomological Reports are now available for Ghana [PDF,
2587KB], Liberia [PDF,
507KB], Mali [PDF,
1544KB], Nigeria [PDF,
1053KB], and Zimbabwe [PDF,
871KB].
Click here to browse through more recent reports and publications by
technical area.
Click here to see most recently updated Funding Tables
for Malaria Operational Plans
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