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 […]

The PMI VectorLink Project’s study “Nationwide insecticide resistance status and biting behaviour of malaria vector species in the Democratic Republic of Congo” was published in the peer-reviewed journal Malaria Journal on March 26, 2018. The study found that widespread resistance to permethrin […]

First New WHO-Recommended Insecticide in 40 Years Piloted in Tanzania The U.S. President’s Malaria Initiative protects millions of people from malaria each year through indoor residual spraying (IRS), which kills the mosquitoes that transmit malaria by spraying insecticide on the […]