PMI, President's Malaria Initiative, Fighting Malaria and Saving Lives

The U.S. Mission Uganda and the Government of Uganda's Ministry of Health today marked a significant milestone in the fight against malaria in 10 northern districts. Over the past three years, the project has helped protect three million people from malaria.

Read a blog post by Katharine McPhee in The Huffington Post about her recent trip to Ghana, where she had an opportunity to see malaria control activities firsthand. The country is on track to make sure that every household is protected with a mosquito net by the end of 2012.

Rear Adm. Tim Ziemer (Ret.) explains how malaria interventions continue to be one of the best investments in global health, and how it is vitally important that we sustain our momentum in support of this "virtuous cycle."

Watch a clip from FoxNews: America's Newsroom with Bill Hemmer and Martha MacCallum on World Malaria Day. Listen to details from Martha's trip to Ghana to help with Malaria No More. 

Washington Post opinion writer, Michael Gerson, praises the United States, and the President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI) in particular, for much of the progress against malaria in Zambia. 

Malaria No More UK is part of a ground-breaking collaboration of local, national and international partners dedicated to fighting malaria in Ghana.

On February 21, 2012, USAID released the final report by an external evaluation team of the first five years (FY 2006 - FY 2010) of the President’s Malaria Initiative.

Admiral Robert Timothy Ziemer, U.S. Global Malaria Coordinator, launched the President’s Malaria Initiative at the U.S. Embassy in Guinea on November 9, 2011.

PMI has created a repository that showcases malaria communication materials developed by our partners across PMI’s focus countries in sub-Saharan Africa.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention welcomes the announcement today that results from the clinical trial in Africa of a malaria vaccine candidate show it prevented about half of malaria cases, including the most severe, in young children.

Study in Benin finds indoor spraying with the insecticide bendiocarb reduced infectious mosquito bites to near zero; and offers effective tool for malaria control strategy in areas rife with pyrethroid-resistance.

In sub-Saharan Africa, malaria poses a major threat to the health of pregnant women and their developing babies; each year nearly 32 million pregnant women are at risk from this deadly disease.

A bipartisan resolution introduced by U.S. Senators Chris Coons (D-Del.) and Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), co-chairs of the Senate Working Group on Malaria, passed the Senate unanimously on Monday, June 27, 2011.

Read an interview with the U.S. Global Malaria Coordinator in PSI's Impact magazine where he discusses the role of the private sector in malaria control, malaria elimination, resistance to artemisinin-based drugs and other issues. 

The Peace Corps and PMI, led by USAID and implemented together with the CDC, announce a new partnership that will expand malaria prevention activities throughout Africa and provide Peace Corps volunteers with the best resources on malaria prevention.

U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of International Information reports on how U.S. officials working to reduce the scourge of malaria celebrated successes, reaffirmed commitment, and stared down the road ahead on World Malaria Day.

Our goal is to reduce malaria illnesses and death by half for 70 percent of at-risk populations in sub Saharan Africa, and to remove the disease as a major public health threat by 2015.

About half of the world's population are at risk of contracting malaria, especially those living in developing countries. Voice of America explores this for World Malaria Day including a statement from Rear Admiral Tim Ziemer, U.S. Global Malaria Coordinator.

Read a blog post by Ezekiel Emanuel in The New Republic about his trip to a PMI-funded health center in Ethiopia. The health center has put together all the pieces to fight malaria and other health problems. 

Read a blog post by Ezekiel Emanuel in The New Republic about his trip in Senegal to Kissan. Kissan is one of the hot spots for malaria that killed 900,000 people last year alone. Kissan was part of the initiative to keep mosquitoes out of homes, with a combination of netting for beds and indoor residual spraying.