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
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