Ghana

Malaria is endemic and perennial in all parts of Ghana with seasonal variations more pronounced in the north. Ghana boasts an updated electronic District Health Information Management System, which has improved malaria data quality, timely reporting, and completeness. Laboratory confirmation has also improved significantly with 77 percent of malaria outpatient cases confirmed in 2016. Ghana has also achieved the highest rate of intermittent preventive treatment for pregnant women in sub-Saharan Africa (78 percent). The institutional case fatality rate among children under five years of age declined from 14 percent in 2000 to less than half a percent in 2016.

MALARIA OPERATIONAL PLANS
STORIES FROM THE FIELD
CONTRACTS & AGREEMENTS

Malaria Operational Plans

The Malaria Operational Plans below are detailed 1-year implementation plans for PMI focus countries. Each plan reviews the current status of malaria control and prevention policies and interventions, identifies challenges and unmet needs to achieve PMI goals, and provides a description of planned PMI-funded activities. Each Malaria Operational Plan has been endorsed by the U.S. Global Malaria Coordinator and reflects collaborative discussions with the national malaria control programs and partners in country. Changes to these plans are reflected in revised postings.

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FY 2019 Ghana Abbreviated Malaria Operational Plan	PDF	1.63 MB	Download
FY 2019 Ghana MOP - Funding Tables	PDF	155.74 KB	Download
FY 2018 Ghana Malaria Operational Plan	PDF	2.04 MB	Download
FY 2018 Ghana Revised Funding Table	PDF	496.87 KB	Download
FY 2017 Ghana Malaria Operational Plan	PDF	2.44 MB	Download
FY 2017 Ghana Revised Funding Table	PDF	202.54 KB	Download
FY 2016 Ghana Malaria Operational Plan	PDF	1.83 MB	Download
FY 2016 Ghana Revised Funding Table	PDF	207.96 KB	Download
FY 2015 Ghana Malaria Operational Plan	PDF	771.89 KB	Download
FY 2015 Ghana Revised Funding Table	PDF	162.57 KB	Download
FY 2014 Ghana Malaria Operational Plan	PDF	792.54 KB	Download
FY 2014 Ghana Revised Funding Table	PDF	210.40 KB	Download
FY 2013 Ghana Malaria Operational Plan	PDF	886.66 KB	Download
FY 2013 Ghana Revised Funding Table	PDF	91.71 KB	Download
FY 2012 Ghana Malaria Operational Plan	PDF	722.60 KB	Download
FY 2012 Ghana Revised Funding Table	PDF	63.92 KB	Download
FY 2011 Ghana Malaria Operational Plan	PDF	397.84 KB	Download
FY 2011 Ghana Revised Funding Table	PDF	44.76 KB	Download
FY 2010 Ghana Malaria Operational Plan	PDF	542.62 KB	Download
FY 2010 Ghana Revised Funding Table	PDF	148.47 KB	Download
FY 2009 Ghana Malaria Operational Plan	PDF	719.03 KB	Download
FY 2009 Ghana Revised Funding Table	PDF	61.78 KB	Download
FY 2008 Ghana Malaria Operational Plan	PDF	1.25 MB	Download
FY 2008 Ghana Revised Funding Table	PDF	201.64 KB	Download

Stories from the Field

Reduce, Reuse, Repurpose – Turning IRS Trash into Treasure

Apr 2019

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.

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Ghana Hosts First Country-specific Peace Corps Volunteer Malaria Training

Dec 2018

Over the years, the Peace Corps STOMP program, with PMI support, has trained and sent more than 800 specialized malaria-prevention volunteers to serve in communities across Africa. STOMP’s goals include grassroot work, collaborating with partners, and sharing knowledge.

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Malaria Fighter: Peace Dellor

Aug 2018

Peace Dellor began working on the PMI Africa Indoor Residual Spraying Project (AIRS) in 2015 as a Data Entry Clerk in Ghana.

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PMI AIRS Returns to Ghana’s Karaga District

Jul 2017

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.

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Electronic Data System in Ghana Improves Outreach Training and Supportive Supervision

Apr 2017

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.

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“My Net Is My Friend” – the Story of a Ghanaian Primary School Child

Apr 2017

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.

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Ghana Launches Campaign to Deliver Insecticide-Treated Nets to Schoolchildren

Jun 2016

On May 23, 2016, the Ghana Education Service launched a country-wide campaign to distribute insecticide-treated nets (ITNs) to 1.2 million children in over 14,000 public and private primary schools in the Volta, Eastern, Central, Western, Ashanti, and Brong Ahafo regions of the country.

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Integrating Mobile Technology into Project Implementation: Improving Efficiency in Malaria Control Operations

Jan 2016

The PMI Africa Indoor Residual Spraying (AIRS) Project 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.

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PMI AIRS Project donates personal protective equipment to farmers, safeguarding them from exposure to pesticides

Nov 2015

The President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI) Africa Indoor Residual Spraying (AIRS) Project takes great precaution to ensure its employees are safe and protected from exposure to insecticide.

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President’s Malaria Initiative Indoor Residual Spraying in Bunkpurugu Yunyoo Distict, Northern Region of Ghana

Aug 2015

In 2008, a President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI)-supported indoor residual spraying (IRS) program was instituted in five districts in the Northern Region of Ghana, an important focus for the Government of Ghana because it has higher rates of malaria transmission, less access to health care resources, and lower economic development, compared to other regions of the country.

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Ghana Food and Drugs Authority’s National Medicines Quality Control Laboratory Attains International Accreditation with Support from PMI

Aug 2015

Spurious, falsely labeled, and counterfeit malaria medicines pose a major public health risk. In Ghana, the President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI) has been supporting capacity building for the Ghana Food and Drugs Authority (GH-FDA) through staff trainings and technical assistance for quality control of medicines.

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Improving Test-based Treatment of Malaria in Peripheral Health Facilities through Mentorship in Ghana

Aug 2015

The President’s Malaria Initiative funded a pilot program in 2014 to attach community health officers to district health facilities in Ghana in order to provide them with mentorship opportunities and improve their case management skills for febrile patients.

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New Insecticide Formulation Re-Energizes Fight Against Malaria

Oct 2014

AIRS entomological studies funded by PMI find new insecticide formulation lasts up to nine months.

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Ghana’s Innovative Health Information Management System Gains African Recognition

Apr 2014

The Ghana Health Service (GHS) implemented an innovative district health information management system (DHIMS) that has led to significant improvements in data collection, reporting, and analysis and has strengthened the country’s health systems.

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Community Volunteers at the Heart of Successful Mosquito Net Distribution in Ghana

Oct 2013

As Ghana prepared to distribute ITNs to its entire population, the country faced a critical question: How to hang more than 12 million nets in homes nationwide?

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Fighting Malaria in Ghana: A Story in Pictures

Jul 2013

Bunbuna Nakoruk is a village of about 300 subsistence farmers in Ghana, where malaria is the number one cause of illness. When a child gets sick from malaria, the family may have to travel several miles on foot to the nearest health center for treatment.

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Ghana: A Woman’s Job Means More than a Paycheck

Jun 2013

AIRS trained 200 women to support the 2012 IRS campaign in Ghana. Although women only make up about 15% of seasonal staff, the project hopes to hire more women in the future.

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With Scheduled Deliveries, Health Facilities Gain Better Access to Medicines

Jun 2011

Up to 80 percent of the population in Ghana’s Upper East region lives in rural communities, where health facilities are often short on staff and vehicles to collect medicines from the regional medical store (RMS)—poor road conditions make it even more challenging.

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Collaboration in IRS Scale-Up in Ghana

Apr 2010

With a patchwork of IRS programs across a diverse landscape, Ghana is undertaking an ambitious scale-up of IRS for malaria control.

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Contracts & Agreements

Listed below are contracts, agreements and implementing partner reports for the PMI focus countries. Documents have been redacted by the awardee at USAID's request to remove any information the awardee considers proprietary.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Interagency Agreement [PDF, 1.1MB]
DELIVER Task Order Malaria [PDF, 393KB]
- Completion Report [PDF, 6.9MB]
- FY2016 Annual Report [PDF, 3.7MB]
- FY 2015 Annual Report [PDF, 6.3MB]
- FY 2014 Annual Report [PDF, 3.5MB]
- FY 2013 Annual Report [PDF, 2.2MB]
- FY 2012 Annual Report [PDF, 2.1MB]
- FY 2011 Annual Report [PDF, 4.2MB]
- FY 2010 Annual Report [PDF, 746KB]
- FY 2009 Annual Report [PDF, 1.5MB]
- FY 2008 Annual Report [PDF, 2.8MB]
- FY 2007 Annual Report [PDF, 3.4MB]
Improving Malaria Diagnostics (IMaD) Cooperative Agreement
- Improving Malaria Diagnostics Annual Report, FY 2010 [PDF, 1.1MB]
- Improving Malaria Diagnostics Annual Report, FY 2009 [PDF, 1.1MB]
- Improving Malaria Diagnostics Annual Report, FY 2008 [PDF, 865KB]
Indoor Residual Spray (IRS) Indefinite Quantity Contract [PDF, 1MB]
- Analysis of 2008 Expenditures in Five IRS TO1 Countries - March 2010 [PDF, 158KB]
- FY08 Ghana Work Plan [PDF, 250KB]
- Ghana End of Spray Round Report [PDF, 14MB]
- FY08, Q1 Report [PDF, 462KB]
- FY08, Q2 Report [PDF, 517KB]
- FY08, Q3 Report [PDF, 692KB]
- FY08, Q4 Report [PDF, 608KB]
- FY09, Q1 Report [PDF, 595KB]
- FY10, Q1 Report [PDF, 2MB]
Indoor Residual Spraying (IRS) Indefinite Quantity Contract 2
- FY 2011 Ghana Spraying Performance Report [PDF, 1.7MB]
- FY 2010 Ghana Spraying Performance Report [PDF, 677KB]
- FY 2010 Semi-Annual Report (Q1 and Q2) [PDF, 1.7MB]
- FY 2010 Semi-Annual Report (Q3 and Q4) [PDF, 2.5MB]
Indoor Residual Spraying (IRS 2) Task Order Four
- Ghana 2014 End of Spray Report [PDF, 1.8MB]
- Ghana 2013 End of Spray Report [PDF, 1MB]
- Ghana 2012 End of Spray Report [PDF, 829KB]
Indoor Residual Spraying (IRS 2) Task Order Six
- Ghana 2017 End of Spray Report [PDF, 2.0MB]
- Ghana 2016 End of Spray Report [PDF, 1.7MB]
- Ghana 2015 End of Spray Report [PDF, 1.6MB]
MalariaCare Cooperative Agreement [PDF, 64MB]
- MalariaCare Project Final Report [PDF, 6.2MB]
- FY 2016 Annual Report [PDF, 7.3MB]
- FY 2015 Annual Report [PDF, 3.2MB]
- FY 2014 Annual Report [PDF, 3.0MB]
- FY 2013 Annual Report [PDF, 1.8MB]
Management Sciences for Health SPS Modification 3 [PDF, 69KB]
Management Sciences for Health SPS Modification 7 [PDF, 23MB]
MCP Agreement - Aidez Small Project International (ASPI) [PDF, 619KB]
- ASPI Year 2 Report [PDF, 14MB]
MCP Agreement - Episcopal Relief and Development (ERD)
- ERD Year 1 Report [PDF, 980KB]
- ERD Year 2 Report [PDF, 2.6MB]
MEASURE Evaluation Phase III Cooperative Agreement [PDF, 9.3MB]
NetMark Contract Modifications [PDF, 967KB]
PMI Impact Malaria [PDF, 1.7MB]
PMI VectorLink Project - Vector Control IDIQ, Task Order 1 [PDF, 7.13 MB]
- Ghana 2018 End of Spray Report [PDF, 2.5MB]
Promoting the Quality of Medicines (PQM) Program – Cooperative Agreement [PDF, 486KB]
USAID-Peace Corps SPA Participating Agency Program Agreement, Amendment 9 [PDF, 1.2MB]
VectorWorks Project Cooperative Agreement [PDF, 470KB]
- FY2019 (Year 5 Q1 and Q2) Semi-Annual Report [PDF, 5.4MB]
- FY2018 (Year 4) Annual Report [PDF, 4.7MB]
- FY2018 (Year 4 Q1 and Q2) Semi-Annual Report [PDF, 3.1MB]
- FY2017 (Year 3) Annual Report [PDF, 2.9MB]
- FY2017 (Year 3 Q1 and Q2) Semi-Annual Report [PDF, 3.7MB]
- FY2016 (Year 2) Annual Report [PDF, 2.52MB]
- FY2015 (Year 1) Annual Report [PDF, 319KB]

New Resources

Ghana NetWorks End of Project Report (2009-2014) [PDF, 2.22 MB]
Successful Practices to Increase Intermittent Preventive Treatment in Ghana [PDF, 310KB]
MalariaCare Fact Sheet: Improving malaria case management across the continuum of care in Ghana [PDF, 227KB]

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Malaria Operational Plans

Stories from the Field

Reduce, Reuse, Repurpose – Turning IRS Trash into Treasure

Ghana Hosts First Country-specific Peace Corps Volunteer Malaria Training

Malaria Fighter: Peace Dellor

PMI AIRS Returns to Ghana’s Karaga District

Electronic Data System in Ghana Improves Outreach Training and Supportive Supervision

“My Net Is My Friend” – the Story of a Ghanaian Primary School Child

Ghana Launches Campaign to Deliver Insecticide-Treated Nets to Schoolchildren

Integrating Mobile Technology into Project Implementation: Improving Efficiency in Malaria Control Operations

PMI AIRS Project donates personal protective equipment to farmers, safeguarding them from exposure to pesticides

President’s Malaria Initiative Indoor Residual Spraying in Bunkpurugu Yunyoo Distict, Northern Region of Ghana

Ghana Food and Drugs Authority’s National Medicines Quality Control Laboratory Attains International Accreditation with Support from PMI

Improving Test-based Treatment of Malaria in Peripheral Health Facilities through Mentorship in Ghana

New Insecticide Formulation Re-Energizes Fight Against Malaria

Ghana’s Innovative Health Information Management System Gains African Recognition

Community Volunteers at the Heart of Successful Mosquito Net Distribution in Ghana

Fighting Malaria in Ghana: A Story in Pictures

Ghana: A Woman’s Job Means More than a Paycheck

With Scheduled Deliveries, Health Facilities Gain Better Access to Medicines

Collaboration in IRS Scale-Up in Ghana

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