Ghana’s Community Health Nurses Help Spread the Word about IRS
August 22, 2019 12:52 pmPMI VectorLink Ghana helps integrate IRS education into government-based health promotion campaigns. Implementing health interventions can prove challenging in countries where a lack of resources poses limitations on what governments can do to help keep communities healthy. Working across 23 countries in sub-Saharan Africa
Read MoreThe PMI VectorLink Approach to Managing Insecticide Resistance
August 15, 2019 5:34 pmManaging Insecticide Resistance Starts with Entomological Monitoring & Surveillance 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 burden. From 2010 to 2017,
Read MorePMI VectorLink Study Published in Malaria Journal
August 5, 2019 1:51 pmThe PMI VectorLink manuscript “susceptibility testing of Anopheles malaria vectors with the neonicotinoid insecticide clothianidin; results from 16 African countries, in preparation for indoor residual spraying with new insecticide formulations” was recently published in the peer-reviewed journal, Malaria Journal
Read MoreMobile Data Collection for Rapid Decision Making
July 12, 2019 3:54 pmPMI VectorLink Burkina Faso is our first IRS country to pilot and implement mobile data collection by the Spray Operator at the household level. 547 Spray Operators collected IRS data on tablets across all the VL Burkina Faso spray districts! The Burkina Faso M&E team worked for months with NMCP and District Health
Read MoreGender Success in Ghana
July 12, 2019 2:28 pmPMI VectorLink Promotes Safety and Inclusion of Women in the Workplace. “I observed and learned the roles and responsibilities of a site manager in the course of previous campaigns. Deep within me, I was confident I would be able to carry these roles out successfully” – Warihana Amadu, IRS Site Manager Warihana
Read MoreReducing Costs and Expanding Coverage
May 29, 2019 4:15 pmPMI VectorLink Rwanda Goes Beyond the Call to Action to Protect More People from Malaria. Indoor residual spraying (IRS) is one of the most effective vector control interventions that kills malaria-carrying mosquitoes by spraying insecticide on walls, ceilings and other indoor resting places of those mosquitoes. Since
Read MoreMobilizing the Masses Against Malaria
May 16, 2019 1:04 pmA Collaborative Commitment to Health Helps Rwanda Drastically Reduce Malaria Cases and Related Deaths. Imagine. It is coming toward the end of a stressful week, and you have finally made it home after a long day at work. You remember that today is trash day, but cannot be bothered to separate out your recycling. Saturday
Read MoreFighting Malaria and Poverty
May 14, 2019 7:29 pmKirehe District in Rwanda Thrives as Indoor Residual Spraying Keeps Community Healthy and Malaria-Free. Before the sun meets the sky, indoor residual spraying (IRS) spray operators make their way from their home to the local IRS operations site where they gather for a filling breakfast. At 5:30 am, they collect their IRS
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