VectorLink Ghana Demonstrating Impact

Ghana has achieved quite the milestone that is sure to serve as great Monday motivation for all! At PMI VectorLink Ghana’s closeout meeting on June 27, 2023—attended by the heads of traditional areas, PMI representatives, National Malaria Elimination Program staff, Ghana Health Service representatives, district officials, research institutions, insecticide companies, and the Environmental Protection Agency—the NMEP shared that between 2011 and 2022, the malaria prevalence among children under five decreased by over 72% in the former Northern region, which has since broken up into three regions: Savannah, Northern, and North East.

Presentations by the health directorates in the Northern and Northeast regions showed that malaria mortality in some districts where VectorLink Ghana operates had decreased, with some districts recording no malaria-related deaths in children under five in the last three years. VectorLink Ghana, through implementing IRS, helped protect 1,021,269 people from malaria, including 168,872 children under five.

CDC Resident Advisor Nana Wilson echoed the achievement of this progress, stating that “we started in 2011 with a 27.5% [malaria] prevalence nationally and all the way to 2022, which is just last year, we’ve been able to reach 8.6% prevalence, which means that what we are doing is working… Even though it has reduced drastically, and we are happy with it, we are aiming [toward] zero malaria, so we have a lot of work to do. But this is an achievement. I think we have to be proud of ourselves.”

All stakeholders attending the closeout meeting expressed their commitment to supporting the continued implementation of vector control interventions under PMI Evolve.

Excellent work demonstrating continued success in reducing the burden of malaria, VL Ghana!