Building Capacity One Insectary at a Time
October 22, 2019 1:12 pmThe PMI VectorLink Project Helps Establish Sierra Leone’s First Vector-Borne Disease Insectary and Laboratory. In the West African country of Sierra Leone, 100 percent of the population is at risk of contracting malaria. Despite the country’s incredible progress in reducing the number of deaths related to malaria in
Read MoreClosing the Entomology Gap in Zambia
September 30, 2019 1:12 pmPMI VectorLink Trains Government on Morphological Identification of Anopheles Vectors. Trainees learn how to identify Anopheles vectors morphologically. The PMI VectorLink Project recently conducted a one-week training for Zambia’s government environmental health technicians (EHTs) in entomological monitoring and morphological
Read MorePMI VectorLink Protects the Most Vulnerable from Malaria
September 23, 2019 9:42 pmMalaria is the deadliest disease in Malawi, killing an average of 8 people a day, and sickening 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
Read MoreGift Wants to Be A Police Officer
September 23, 2019 9:33 pmThe U.S. President’s Malaria Initiative Fights Malaria in Malawi and Helps Keep Kids in School 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.
Read MorePMI and PAMCA
September 23, 2019 4:23 pmThe PMI VectorLink Project is hard at work in Cameroon today, highlighting the important work and lessons learned in malaria prevention and control in Africa at the 2019 Pan-African Mosquito Control Association (PAMCA) Conference. PAMCA brings together mosquito-control experts and researchers from Africa and beyond. The
Read MoreThe Importance of Entomological Monitoring
September 10, 2019 5:06 pmThe PMI VectorLink Project delivers vector control interventions and protects millions of people from contracting malaria. An integral part of our work is robust entomological monitoring, that enables entomologists to identify which mosquitoes carry malaria, the relative geographical and temporal distribution of the mosquitoes
Read More2018 Results and Project Outcomes
September 4, 2019 3:27 pmPMI VectorLink reports on a set of indicators to national partners and PMI for each spray campaign. The key outcomes achieved by the end of the campaign include the total number of structures sprayed, people protected against malaria with IRS, and country personnel trained to conduct various IRS tasks. As the project expands
Read MoreWe Do Nets Too!
September 4, 2019 2:08 pmIntegrated vector control for malaria, according to the WHO Guidelines for Malaria Vector Control, requires “rational decision-making for the optimal use of resources for vector control”. For the U.S. President’s Initiative (PMI) VectorLink Project, it involves making vector control decisions—whether to deploy
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