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

AIRS protects millions of people in Africa from malaria by spraying insecticide on the walls, ceilings, and other indoor resting places of mosquitoes that transmit malaria.

IR Mapper is a tool used to view results from insecticide studies (WHO susceptibility tests) using malaria mosquitoes collected from sites throughout the world.

PMI is committed to ensuring that all persons with malaria are promptly diagnosed and treated with a safe and efficacious antimalarial drug. In sub-Saharan Africa, children under 5 in impoverished, rural areas are at the greatest risk of dying from malaria and are the focus of PMI’s efforts.

Drs. Kent Campbell and Jonathon Simon describe how in Zambia and other countries, PMI is a shining example of the profound impact the U.S. is making in global health. The authors advocate for building on PMI’s success and expanding its reach so it can help high-burden countries carry their recent gains into the next decade.

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.