Holding Hope in IRS
December 14, 2018 1:26 pmPMI Brings IRS Back to Malawi, Protecting Country’s Most Vulnerable Zione Mangani with her husband and two of her children. “Without IRS, we’ve really suffered. When you have malaria, you can die in as short a time as one or two days. We want to get our homes sprayed every year. The insecticide is expected to last
Read MoreThe Village That Sleeps
November 21, 2018 12:22 pmIRS Success in Burkina Faso Provides Sleep to Once-Weary Community PMI VectorLink sprayed 126,961 homes in Kongoussi, exceeding the MOH and NMCP targets and protecting 365,430 people from malaria. Malaria remains a major public health issue in Burkina Faso as it is endemic throughout the country. Eighty percent of the
Read MoreReduce, Reuse, Repurpose – Environmental Success in Benin
October 17, 2018 6:03 pmPMI VectorLink Transforms Waste into Resources For the past ten years, the U.S. President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI) has implemented key vector control interventions in Benin to reduce malaria-related morbidity and mortality. Working in partnership with local governments and the National Malaria Control Program (NMCP),
Read MoreForging Partnerships for Progress in Malaria Prevention
September 30, 2018 7:53 pmPMI VectorLink Collaborates with Liberia NMCP to Build Local Capacity in Entomological Analysis for Vector Control ELISA–CSP training held at Liberian Institute of Biomedical Research (LIBR), Charlesville, Margibi County, Liberia. Photo credit: Helbert Lincoln, LIBR Technician In the West African country of Liberia,
Read MoreWorld Mosquito Day: A Story of Strength and Progress as Told Through Photos
August 17, 2018 7:05 pmMalaria is a preventable and treatable disease transmitted by the female Anopheles mosquito. Alone, this mosquito poses a deadly threat to nearly half of the world’s population, but women and children in sub-Saharan Africa are most at risk. Carrying 80% of the global malaria burden, the region is most vulnerable to malaria-related
Read MoreRecord Reductions in Malaria Cases in IRS Districts
August 3, 2018 2:21 pmTraditional community leaders improve quality of life through their support of IRS Malaria is an endemic disease in Ghana. This makes any effort which reduces malaria worth celebrating. Among the interventions used to help in the reduction of malaria is Indoor Residual Spraying (IRS). IRS involves spraying an insecticide
Read MoreMalaria Fighter: Peace Dellor
August 1, 2018 7:29 pmTamale, Ghana: Peace Dellor began working on the PMI Africa Indoor Residual Spraying Project (AIRS) in 2015 as a Data Entry Clerk in Ghana. Due to her diligence and hard work she was promoted to be the Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Assistant for Kumbungu District, one of the seven districts targeted by PMI VectorLink,
Read MoreThe Container Store
July 31, 2018 12:58 amPMI VectorLink Innovates, Transforms Shipping Containers into IRS Stores In the West African country of Benin, the U.S. President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI), working in partnership with the Government of Benin, has conducted large-scale indoor residual spraying (IRS) operations since 2008. The PMI VectorLink Project
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