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Comprendre la résistance des moustiques aux insecticides est essentiel pour garantir des stratégies efficaces de lutte contre le paludisme. L’Initiative du Président des États-Unis contre le paludisme collabore avec des scientifiques d’institutions de recherche en Côte d’Ivoire pour étudier le comportement des moustiques, et ces études permettent d’établir les stratégies nationales de pulvérisation intra-domiciliaire à effet rémanent et de distribution de moustiquaires imprégnées d’insecticide. Le projet PMI VectorLink, mis en œuvre par Abt Associates, est un partenaire qui soutient cette recherche.

Research on mosquitoes helps countries make better decisions about how to prevent and control malaria. The U.S. President’s Malaria Initiative partners with Côte d’Ivoire’s National Malaria Control Program to support research institutes that are studying mosquito behavior. In this video, we hear from Yolande Niangara, one of many scientists whose study of mosquito behavior is leading to better malaria control strategies in Côte d’Ivoire. In her role with the country’s National Malaria Control Program, Yolande works with the National Institute of Public Hygiene and the Swiss Center for Scientific Research, two of the four local research institutions that partner with PMI VectorLink.

Chisenga Island in Zambia is between one and three hours via boat from the mainland. Due to its remote location, malaria prevention is critical. The U.S. President’s Malaria Initiative, in collaboration with the Zambian Ministry of Health and its partners, provides life-saving malaria prevention interventions: spraying homes with insecticide and distributing mosquito nets. In this new video, we meet community member Fainess Mubanga and others, who come together to contribute to these malaria prevention efforts.

PMI VectorLink Ghana works to bring indoor residual spraying (IRS) to hard-to-reach communities by working with the government of Ghana to implement IRS in nine districts. They reach nearly 1,500 communities, close to 18 percent of which are in hard-to-reach areas. Some of these areas are only accessible through roads that can become impassible during heavy rains; others are nestled between mountains and can only be reached on foot.  Successful implementation of IRS in hard-to-reach communities is thanks to dedicated communities and their leadership, supportive stakeholders, and committed governments in Ghana and the United States. 

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When the COVID-19 pandemic began spreading across the globe, the World Health Organization called for a continuation of malaria control services. PMI VectorLink heeded the call. Watch Jackie's story as she tells us how PMI VectorLink fights back against this deadly disease.

The U.S. President's Malaria Initiative collaborates with national and local governments to identify, study, and record where malaria-transmitting mosquitoes live, how they feed, when they rest, and the density of their population. In Kenya, PMI trained community health volunteers on how to catch and monitor those mosquitoes, expanding the national government's geographical reach to collect critical data on mosquitoes from two counties.

Learn more about the PMI VectorLink Project's indoor residual spraying (IRS) campaign through this Social and Behavior Change Communication piece designed to mobilize the community and encourage acceptance of IRS in Benin.

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When kids fall sick from malaria, they often miss weeks of school and can easily fall behind in their learning. In 2017, many of the children in Malawi’s Nkhotakota District were contracting the disease three times a year. Children sick that often can easily slide into malnutrition. Find out how the U.S. President’s Malaria Initiative VectorLink Project protected more than 500,000 people in Malawi and is helping kids stay in school and learn.

Malaria is the deadliest disease in Malawi, killing an average of 8 people a day, and sickens thousands more every year. For those with HIV and compromised immune systems, the disease is extremely dangerous. In 2018, the U.S. President’s Malaria Initiative’s VectorLink Project brought indoor residual spraying back to Malawi after a six-year absence to help reduce the burden of malaria. The results have been amazing.

Since the launch of the U.S. President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI) in 2006, malaria control interventions across sub-Saharan Africa have scaled up dramatically, resulting in a significant decline in malaria.

From 2010 to 2017, the number of people who died from malaria went down from 607,000 to 435,000 according to WHO's 2018 World Malaria Report.

Much of this progress can be attributed to the scale-up of vector control interventions like insecticide-treated nets (ITNs) and indoor residual spraying (IRS); two key components of the global malaria control strategy supported by the PMI VectorLink Project.

However, mosquitoes’ growing resistance to insecticides threatens further progress and could potentially reverse the gains made in malaria control recorded in the last decade.

As a step towards addressing the issue, PMI VectorLink implements a comprehensive insecticide resistance monitoring program across sub-Saharan Africa to understand the problem and guide vector control programming.

Learn more about PMI VectorLink's work in vector control, and our efforts to protect millions of people from the burden of malaria.

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In 2006, the U.S. President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI) began providing assistance to the Government of Zanzibar in indoor residual spraying (IRS) to kill the mosquitoes that transmit malaria. On this archipelago off the coast of East Africa, IRS has helped to reduce the prevalence of malaria from 35% to less than 1%. The PMI Africa Indoor Residual Spraying Project (AIRS), implemented by Abt Associates, is assisting the Government of Zanzibar in IRS and entomological monitoring and surveillance in efforts to eliminate the disease.

The PMI AIRS Project studies the behavior of mosquitoes carrying malaria to help determine the best type of insecticide to use in indoor residual spraying. PMI AIRS is building the capacity of local entomologists to tackle this deadly disease.

The President’s Malaria Initiative Africa Indoor Residual Spraying (PMI AIRS) Project promotes gender equality, improving women’s economic opportunities while protecting people from malaria.

AIRS works with community leaders to educate the community about how indoor residual spraying prevents malaria. Information, education, and communication campaigns are conducted using radio, village meetings, discussions with mothers at antenatal clinics, and door-to-door visits to increase acceptance of indoor residual spraying. Communications campaigns are critical because at least 80% of households must accept indoor residual spraying for the program to be effective at preventing malaria. Watch the video to learn more.

AIRS Project is funded by the USAID-led President's Malaria Initiative and implemented by Abt Associates.

The USAID-funded Africa Indoor Residual Spraying has developed a mobile application that makes environmental compliance assessments of indoor residual spraying operational sites fast and easy. The site assessment checklist is pre-loaded onto a smartphone to ensure that all environmental compliance aspects of each operational site are inspected.

In Ghana, AIRS is using a new insecticide packaged in plastic bottles. Instead of burning or burying the empty insecticide bottles at the end of the spray campaign, AIRS worked with a local organization to recycle them. Now plastic bottles from the indoor residual spraying program have been turned into paving blocks. Watch the video to learn more.

AIRS Project is funded by the USAID-led President's Malaria Initiative and implemented by Abt Associates.

AIRS promotes women's participation in the fight against malaria, providing them leadership opportunities in indoor residual spraying. Learn how one women in Benin is leading the way to bring about lasting development results for women and communities.

An integral part of The PMI VectorLink Project is robust entomological monitoring that enables entomologists to identify which mosquitoes carry malaria, the feeding and resting habits of the vector, the quality of spraying, as well as insecticide resistance.

In 2012, AIRS piloted a new approach to indoor residual spraying (IRS)—instead of leading operations at the district level, AIRS trained 39 health extension workers from 20 villages to lead IRS from their community health posts. The community-based IRS shows promise for reducing the cost and increasing the sustainability of IRS. Watch the video to learn more.

Indoor residual spraying program implementers depend on entomological research to test if insecticide sprayed on walls of homes is indeed killing malaria-transmitting mosquitoes. In a mere three weeks, the USAID-funded Africa Indoor Residual Spraying team turned a 40-by-8-foot shipping container into an insectary equipped for breeding, rearing, and testing mosquitoes. By not incurring the expense of buying land and renovating a building, the insectary-in-a-box cost less than US$20,000.

New training video provides environmental compliance officers a step-by-step guide to building a mobile soak pit. Developed by AIRS, the innovative mobile soak pit increases efficiency and improves environmental safety of IRS in remote areas.

AIRS How IRS Works animation - French version

Fighting Malaria Requires Local Support - AIRS in Senegal

In 2008, the President's Malaria Initiative began supporting indoor residual spraying in Madagascar to prevent malaria. In 2014, PMI expanded its reach to include coast communities in the eastern part of the country, which suffers from typhoons, flooding and high incidences of malaria. Communities welcomed the IRS campaign and joined in the fight to improve their lives. Watch here to learn about one community's story and the impact IRS has had on their life.