IRS Success in Burkina Faso Provides Sleep to Once-Weary Community Malaria remains a major public health issue in Burkina Faso as it is endemic throughout the country. Eighty percent of the estimated 19 million residents of Burkina Faso live in […]

PMI VectorLink Transforms Waste into Resources For the past ten years, the U.S. President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI) has implemented key vector control interventions in Benin to reduce malaria-related morbidity and mortality. Working in partnership with local governments and the National […]

PMI VectorLink Collaborates with Liberia NMCP to Build Local Capacity in Entomological Analysis for Vector Control In the West African country of Liberia, the entire population of ~4.85 million is at risk of contracting malaria. As the leading cause of […]

Malaria is a preventable and treatable disease transmitted by the female Anopheles mosquito. Alone, this mosquito poses a deadly threat to nearly half of the world’s population, but women and children in sub-Saharan Africa are most at risk. Carrying 80% […]

Traditional community leaders improve quality of life through their support of IRS Malaria is an endemic disease in Ghana. This makes any effort which reduces malaria worth celebrating. Among the interventions used to help in the reduction of malaria is […]

Tamale, Ghana: Peace Dellor began working on the PMI Africa Indoor Residual Spraying Project (AIRS) in 2015 as a Data Entry Clerk in Ghana. Due to her diligence and hard work she was promoted to be the Monitoring and Evaluation […]

PMI VectorLink Innovates, Transforms Shipping Containers into IRS Stores In the West African country of Benin, the U.S. President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI), working in partnership with the Government of Benin, has conducted large-scale indoor residual spraying (IRS) operations since 2008. […]

April 2018 was a significant and exciting month for malaria, rich with new commitments and milestones reached in the fight to end malaria once and for all. It stated with many partners and stakeholders convening in Dakar, Senegal, for the […]

This year, the PMI VectorLink Project celebrates World Malaria Day by recognizing the many spray operators who defend their communities from the threat of malaria. Since 2006 the President’s Malaria Initiative has protected millions of people in sub-Saharan Africa from […]

Despite Political Unrest in Kenya, PMI AIRS Provides Protection Against Malaria Approximately three-quarters of Kenya’s population is at risk of contracting malaria. In 2017, the U.S. President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI) conducted a successful indoor residual spraying (IRS) campaign in Kenya’s Lake […]