Indoor residual spray campaigns are an important part of malaria prevention, but these campaigns also generate large amounts of waste. To combat this waste, PMI-supported projects have partnered with local private companies and nonprofits in order to reduce and repurpose campaign byproducts. These repurposing efforts have benefited local economies as well as the environment.

Learn how the Ethiopian Food, Medicine and Health Care Administration and Control Authority, established in 2010, protect the public from unsafe, falsified, and substandard medicines.

To help Ethiopia safely dispose of DDT, the U.S. President’s Malaria Initiative Africa Indoor Residual Spraying (AIRS) Project facilitated training, collection, transboundary permits, offshore shipment, and incineration of the waste in Poland. 

In 2015–2016, the U.S. President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI) Africa Indoor Residual Spraying (AIRS) Project supported the disposal of some 115 tons of DDT in PMI-supported districts to ensure the safety of the population and the environment

A PMI-funded social and behavioral change communication project targeting 25 kebeles used students and religious leaders as agents of change to help mitigate the problem of malaria in Dera woreda. 

To prevent and control malaria at Mierafemaraim kebele in Dera woreda, a social and behavioral change communication project is underway. The program uses peer education and other in-school behavioral change communications strategies to raise students’ awareness of key malaria action messages.

To address the a problem with malaria prevention in Zara-Michael, a religious, educational institution located in the South Gondar zone of the Amhara Region, a PMI-funded social and behavioral change communication project trained religious-institution leaders to be messengers of key malaria action messages. 

The PMI AIRS Project has trained 57 supervisors and 40 technicians to facilitate the collection and repacking of the insecticide. 

With funding from the President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI), ICAP’s Malaria Laboratory Diagnosis and Monitoring project has been strengthening malaria laboratory diagnostic capacity and case management in Ethiopia. 

To meet Ethiopia’s ambitious goal of reducing malaria deaths by 70 percent, PMI and the Federal Ministry of Health have worked with implementing partners to strengthen laboratory diagnostic capacity and malaria case management at the national, regional, and health facility levels.

Since the late 1950s when the Ethiopian government began using indoor residual spraying (IRS) as part of the WHO-led Global Malaria Eradication Program, the country’s IRS work has been dominated by men. Traditional barriers, such as the misperception that women are not interested in or strong enough to do the work required in spray operations and that IRS work is “men’s work”, have limited women from participating in the income-generating work of IRS.

Malaria is highly preventable when the right precautions are taken and populations are well-informed of the risks. Many people suffer needlessly from the disease simply because they do not know why insecticide-treated mosquito nets are necessary and how to use them, or where to seek treatment when malaria symptoms arise.

Malaria is a major public health problem in Ethiopia. Three quarters of the land mass is prone to malaria and 57 million inhabitants are at risk of infection.

The President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI), along with the Government of Ethiopia, supports 10 epidemic detection sites in Oromia Regional State. The goals of these sites are to detect, at the community and sub-community level, increases in malaria cases and epidemic outbreaks; pilot approaches in documenting the process prospectively; and respond to outbreaks in a timely and effective manner.

For the first time in Ethiopia, a local institution will have the capacity to carry out molecular and immunologic testing of mosquitoes.

To increase the rural population’s access to basic health services, the government of Ethiopia trained more than 30,000 health extension workers, mostly women, and deployed them to more than 15,000 village-based health posts.

Malaria transmission in Ethiopia is unique. Unlike other sub-Saharan African countries, malaria is caused by two malaria parasite species in Ethiopia: Plasmodium falciparum and P. vivax, which account for 60% and 40% of cases, respectively.

Although significant progress has been observed in scaling up malaria control interventions over the past few years, limited efforts have been invested in using research results to inform national malaria policy and the implementation of malaria control.

Transmission of malaria is highly variable and characterized by frequent and often large-scale epidemics.

In Ethiopia, resistance to pyrethroid insecticides is rapidly spreading and is posing a major threat to preventing the transmission of malaria.