Archive – PMI in the News
2010
- U.S Army Medical Research Unit: Improving Malaria Diagnosis in Africa, One Lab at a Time – 06/21/10
For more than 40 years, USAMRU-K - known locally as the Walter Reed Project - has studied diseases in East Africa through a partnership with the Kenya Medical Research Institute.
- African Leaders Launch Push Against Malaria – 05/05/10
African leaders from 26 countries have launched a fresh drive to eliminate malaria using a combination of bed nets, insecticides and medication, Tanzania's President Jakaya Kikwete said on Wednesday.
- Fighting Malaria in Ethiopia – 05/04/10
Thousands of Long-Lasting Insecticidal Nets, or mosquito bed-nettings, were handed out by a U.S. Army Civil Affairs team to the people of Hayo Oda Kebele, Dollo Mena District, Bale Zone, Ethiopia, April 26, 2010.
- PMI Team Provides Support for Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) in Madagascar (French) – 04/26/10
A team of PMI technical staff conducted a site visit in Madagascar to support the implementation of IMCI at the community level, an approach that includes the prevention and treatment of malaria, pneumonia, and diarrhea. Also available in English [PDF, 158KB].
- Adm. Tim Ziemer's Blog: U.S. Expands Anti-Malaria Effort as Progress Takes Hold – 04/25/10
World Malaria Day was observed on April 25 to call attention to the disease and to mobilize action to combat it. President Obama tweeted on World Malaria Day directing people to Adm. Tim Ziemer's Blog on whitehouse.gov.
- World Malaria Day – 04/25/10
April 25, 2010, marks the third annual World Malaria Day, a day set aside to call attention to malaria and to mobilize action to combat it.
- Global Fund: 2010 is Critical Year for Global Efforts to Defeat Malaria – 04/25/10
The global community faces a pivotal year in 2010 in a campaign to eliminate malaria as a major health challenge by 2015 in most endemic countries. Financial resources needed to meet this goal must be secured this year for this target to be met.
- Combating Malaria: Optimism Grows as Target is in Sight – 04/23/10 [PDF, 7.5MB]
This Financial Times Special Report features a broad range of articles on malaria, including vaccine development, antimalarial resistance, indoor residual spraying, diagnostics, and supply chain management.
- U.S. Effort to Fight Malaria Focuses on Women – 04/22/10
The U.S. Government announced on Thursday it would focus part of its $63 billion, six-year Global Health Initiative plan to accelerate efforts to fight malaria, mostly in Africa and aimed at women and children.
- Substandard Antimalarial Medicines Highlight the Need for Health Care Reform in African Countries – 02/25/10
Substandard antimalarial medicines are still sold widely in Madagascar, Senegal, and Uganda, according to a recently published study by United States Pharmacopeia, a non-governmental organization dedicated to monitoring standards and quality of medicines and food around the world.
- Private Sector and PMI Join Forces, Strengthen Angola's Capacity to Control Mosquitoes -
02/15/10
Top global companies and the President's Malaria Initiative are working with the Government of Angola on an intensive technical training program to arm the country's malaria fighters with state-of-the-art mosquito surveillance and vector control techniques.
2009
- U.S. Soldiers Facilitate Malaria Laboratory Training in Tanzania – 11/30/09
A team of U.S. Army instructors from Combined Joint Task Force - Horn of Africa provided malaria microscopy training to 20 Tanzanian medical laboratory technicians, Nov. 23 - Dec. 4. The instruction was conducted at the National Reference Laboratory and Quality Assurance Training Center, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
- In a Malaria Hot Spot, Resistance to a Key Drug
– 11/14/09
On the Thai-Cambodian border, a rogue strain of malaria has started to resist artemisinin, the only remaining effective drug in the world's arsenal against malaria's most deadly strain, Plasmodium falciparum. For six decades, malaria drugs like chloroquine and mefloquine have fallen impotent in this Southeast Asian border area, allowing stronger strains to spread to Burma, India and Africa. But this time there's no new wonder drug waiting in the wings.
- Formation of a Senate Working Group on Malaria – 08/06/09
Senators Russ Feingold (D-WI) and Roger Wicker (R-MS) launched the first-ever Senate Working Group on Malaria. The bipartisan Senate Working Group is designed to help raise awareness and support efforts to combat this deadly disease. The senators recognize that through PMI, the United States has become a global leader in reducing deaths from malaria. - Charting Malaria's Demise – Summer 2009
The summer issue of Global Health Magazine reports on a new geostatistical modeling tool, the result of two years of work by a team of researchers at Oxford University and other institutions that will likely help public health experts shrink malaria's reach on the world map. The author acknowledges PMI's work in contributing to data collection.
- World Malaria Day – 08/25/09
April 25th marks World Malaria Day, when countries around the world come together to help raise global awareness of malaria, celebrate progress, and reaffirm their commitment to fighting the disease
- World Malaria Day – 08/25/08
- Interview with Admiral Timothy Ziemer - Leadership Interview: A Good Leader Cares for His People - July 2008
- Eight in Ten Malian Households With Children Protected by Lifesaving Mosquito Nets Following Ministry of Health National Child Health Campaign - 04/25/08 [PDF, 135KB]
- Malaria Initiative Helping Save Lives, Treat Disease
- 04/24/08
This AllAfrica.com news story covers the First Lady’s Remarks on the President’s Malaria Initiative at the Congressional Malaria Caucus.
- Congressman Payne, First Lady Laura Bush Raise Awareness of Global Malaria Epidemic - 04/24/08
This AllAfrica.com press release covers the official launch of the Congressional Malaria Caucus.
- Zanzibar's Example In Fighting Malaria - 02/19/08
Covering part of President and Mrs. Bush's six-day trip to Africa, this article in The Washington Post describes Tanzania's progress on the fight against malaria and includes interviews with local residents and clinicians. Former President Bush remarked, "Within the next six months, the United States and Tanzania, in partnership with the World Bank and the Global Fund, will begin distributing 5.2 million free bed nets. This ambitious nationwide program will provide enough nets to protect every child between the ages of one and five in Tanzania."
2007
- How the Malaria World Benefits from an Admiral - 12/19/07
Featured in a guest column on AllAfrica.com by Dr. Steven Phillips, Medical Director, ExxonMobil, Rear Adm. Tim Ziemer traveled to Mali for the formal launch of the PMI and to take part in a national integrated child health campaign targeting more than 2.8 million children under five. PMI is providing $1 million for the purchase of more than 200,000 long-lasting insecticide-treated mosquito nets and additional support for community mobilization and follow-up efforts for malaria prevention. This effort is the sixth major public-private partnership activity for PMI this year.
- Benin Conducts Anti-Malaria Bed Net Campaign to Save Children's Lives - 10/22/07
Rear Adm. Tim Ziemer, U.S. Malaria Coordinator, attended one of the largest anti-malaria bed net campaigns that Benin has ever organized. More than 1.6 million long lasting insecticide-treated bed nets with the potential to protect 90 percent of Benin's children have been given out nationwide.
- Defeating an Ancient Killer - 10/17/07
The Seattle Times published an op-ed written by Rear Adm. Tim Ziemer, U.S. Malaria Coordinator, and Michel Kazatchkine, Executive Director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. The article focuses on a new report by UNICEF that offers a ray of hope in the progress being made in the fight against malaria in Sub-Saharan Africa. Articles in Voice of America and Reuters also discuss the UNICEF report, with quotes from Rear Adm. Ziemer explaining a three-part plan to roll back malaria and reporting on the impact of mosquito net distribution in Zanzibar.
- Rear Adm. Ziemer Attends the Gates Foundation Malaria Forum - October 2007
- USAID Announces First Malaria Communities Program (MCP) Grants - 10/8/07
Voice of America reports on the first MCP grants announced by USAID on October 5. The MCP is a $30 million initiative created under the PMI to support the efforts of communities and indigenous organizations to combat malaria in Africa.
- Malawi Receives First Shipment of Lifesaving Anti-malarial Drugs - 09/26/07
In September 2007, Malawi received its first consignment of artemisinin-based combination therapies (ACTs), provided by the U.S. government as part of the PMI.
- Anti-malaria Spraying Campaign in Rwanda - 08/28/07
Read how RTI International launched an anti-malaria spraying campaign to treat 155,000 households in Rwanda as part of the PMI.
- Learn more about Africa Malaria Day and Malaria Awareness Day - 04/25/07
Read new success stories, watch video from the Malaria Awareness event at the White House, read the Proclamation issued by President Bush for Malaria Awareness Day 2007 and more.
- Angola: Government Gets Anti-Malaria Drugs - 02/22/07
Mentioned in this article by the Angola Press Agency (Luanda), PMI recently donated 580,000 sets of Coartem and additional funding to Angolan authorities to help fight malaria. The medicine was presented by PMI Coordinator Admiral Tim Ziemer to Angola's Health Deputy Minister, José Van-Dúnem.
- Dr. Bernard Nahlen to be Deputy Coordinator of the President's Malaria Initiative (PMI) - 01/29/07
Rear Admiral Timothy Ziemer, the PMI Coordinator, announced his intent to name Dr. Bernard Nahlen to serve as Deputy Coordinator of PMI.
- New Tests Promise Rapid and Accurate Detection of Malaria - 01/18/07
This article by Voice of America discusses how rapid diagnostic tests are becoming an increasingly important method for detecting malaria.
2006
- West Africans Try Treated Bed Nets, New Drugs to Combat Malaria - 12/13/06
(By Voice of America)