Partners and donors recognized the need for a streamlined process to exchange and transfer health commodities. PMI took the lead in developing a memorandum of understanding (MOU) signed by the three major donors and the Ministry of Health.

USAID and implementing partners developed an innovative approach for improved storage conditions and distribution practices of health commodities in the Sud Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Medicine regulation demands the application of sound technical knowledge and skills. In the DRC, the Directorate of Pharmacy, Medicines and Traditional Medicine oversees this activity and is responsible for keeping the National Medicines Registry up to date.

Since 2012, USAID has been supporting the end-use verification (EUV) survey in DRC through the Systems for Improved Access to Pharmaceuticals and Services (SIAPS) program. The survey helps to assess the availability of malaria commodities and track facility-level stockouts to improve distribution of commodities within the country.

In May 2016, PMI began supporting the implementation of a strategy to strengthen the routine health information system at the facility level. It targeted five facilities each in Lubumbashi and Kapolowe health zones, located in the southern province of Haut Katanga. 

Approximately three-quarters of Kenya’s population is at risk of contracting malaria. In 2017, the U.S. President’s Malaria Initiative conducted a successful indoor residual spraying campaign in Kenya’s Lake Victoria Region, protecting more than 900,000 people from malaria.

A well-trained health workforce is essential to achieving PMI’s objectives and goal, which is why the U.S. President’s Malaria Initiative supports the training, equipping, and supervising of community health workers like Kasyonga Pharaoh, a 29-year-old voluntary community health worker in Bukinda, Uganda.

Since the opening of the Mahama Refugee Camp by the Government of Rwanda and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in 2015, Mahama Refugee Camp has become a model settlement that sets the standard for other refugee camps in the country and beyond.

In the small village of Chitakatira in Zimbabwe’s eastern Manicaland Province, Tsitsi Kupangwa has worked as a community health volunteer (CHV) for the past nine years, relying on her income through farming to support her family. 

The U.S. President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI) has conducted indoor residual spraying (IRS) in Benin since 2008, resulting in significant reductions in malaria transmission in those areas sprayed.

In Madagascar, the U.S. President’s Malaria Initiative supports over 6,800 community health volunteers (CHVs), and works towards helping eliminate malaria through awareness raising, prevention, treatment, and epidemiologic surveillance. CHVs are on the frontlines of this effort, saving the lives of thousands of people in villages across Madagascar.

USAID, through support from the U.S. President’s Malaria Initiative, promotes the use of long-lasting insecticide-treated bednets. Since 2011, USAID has funded and distributed 445,000 nets, 380,000 diagnostic tests, and 58,000 antimalarial treatments in Laos.

In Nigeria, entomological surveillance is currently being carried out by the PMI AIRS Project in six locations designated as sentinel sites across five ecological zones of the country.

In Northern Uganda’s Amolatar District, four young adults are dancing and singing to change the way their community views indoor residual spraying (IRS) and, in turn, improving the overall health of their communities.

Evidence-based research and routine monitoring are essential to sound malaria control programming. Understanding the behavior of the mosquitoes that carry malaria requires precise data on the vector’s density, feeding time, location, and its resistance to insecticides.

In 2006, the U.S. President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI) began providing the Government of Zanzibar assistance in indoor residual spraying (IRS) to kill the mosquitoes that transmit the disease. Since PMI began spraying in 2006, the incidence of malaria has reduced from an average annual rate of 35% to less than 1%.

In the northern region of Ghana, the U.S. President’s Malaria Initiative’s (PMI) Africa Indoor Residual Spraying (AIRS) Project returned to Karaga District in 2017 after four years. 

Data indicates that malaria was responsible for 45 percent of admissions and 28 percent of deaths at health centers in Zambézia Province, Mozambique. PMI is supporting activities with the Zambézia Provincial Health Directorate to improve the ability of laboratory technicians to properly identify and diagnose malaria.

To help Ghana's National Malaria Control Program collect standardized information and better assess health facility performance over time, PMI supported the introduction of a checklist that is completed by supervisors during their outreach training and supportive supervision (OTSS) visits. 

With support from PMI, Thailand’s BVBD (Bureau of Vector Borne Diseases) has developed a new software application that consolidates data from the vertical system with the General Health Service’s system into a single surveillance system.