WORLD MALARIA DAY 2021

This past year, COVID-19 led to an unprecedented crisis. But malaria campaigns that spray homes with insecticides, provide people with mosquito nets, and distribute preventive medicines for children were sustained. Health workers were trained and equipped to provide these services safely. The long-term impact and value of U.S. Government investments against malaria and other diseases were clear.

On World Malaria Day 2021, PMI joins the global community in celebrating successes in spite of these challenges and underscoring the need to protect the significant, yet fragile, progress against malaria over the last 15 years. We are committed to working together with partner countries and the broader malaria community to ensure prevention campaigns continue and every effort is made to recover and sustain malaria services. We are inspired by partner countries’ resilience and creativity in the dual fight against malaria and COVID-19—and optimistic that together we can win both.

Together with our partners, PMI has helped save 7.6 million lives and prevent 1.5 billion malaria infections in the last two decades. Since 2005, PMI has invested $8 billion in hundreds of millions of mosquito-killing nets and sprays, life-saving malaria tests and medicines, and heroic health workers in clinics and communities. Thanks to the generosity of the American people, PMI benefits more than 700 million people at risk of malaria worldwide each year.