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.

Sampov Loun Operational District is located along the Cambodian-Thai border where malaria drug resistance has been documented.  In close consultation with PMI and the National Centre for Parasitology, Entomology, and Malaria, a basic essential package of activities for malaria pre-elimination using the "1-3-7" surveillance approach was designed for piloting in this district.

Festus Akun is a 9-year-old student at Amanhyia Roman Catholic Primary School in the Eastern Region of Ghana. Like many other children in Ghana, Festus now rests safe and sound, protected from mosquitoes because he sleeps under an insecticide-treated mosquito net. 

The availability of high-quality, inexpensive rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) has transformed the diagnosis and management of childhood illnesses in Zambia and across Africa, allowing for the rapid prescription of life-saving treatment, particularly for children.

Frontline health workers like Adrian are often the first, and sometimes only, providers of health services essential to child and maternal survival, like diagnosing and treating malaria.

Since 2007, PMI has been working with Zambia’s National Malaria Control Program and other partners to scale up malaria prevention tools in the country.

In Madagascar, where the entire population is at risk of contracting malaria, the PMI AIRS Project is building the capacity of the government to deliver high-quality spraying through trainings and collaborative meetings