The U.S. President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI) announced a new five-year project to further PMI’s global commitment to end malaria. The Reaching Every At-Risk Community and Household with Malaria Services (PMI REACH Malaria) project will work with partner countries’ ministries of health and national malaria programs to strengthen prevention, detection, and treatment of the disease in health facilities and by community health workers to reduce malaria cases and save lives.
The project has been awarded to PATH, a global nonprofit organization. PATH will work with a consortium of partners on the project: Amref Health Africa (Amref) based in Kenya, Catholic Relief Services (CRS), ECHO Institute at the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center (ECHO), Impact Santé Afrique (ISA) in Cameroon, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM), Université Cheikh Anta Diop (UCAD) in Senegal, and Banyan Global.
PMI REACH Malaria will accelerate progress in planning, delivering, and monitoring of malaria services, including providing preventive medicines to those most at risk from the disease: pregnant women and children. Project activities will include strengthening the ability of laboratories to detect malaria, enhancing the skills of health workers to accurately test for and treat the disease, extending malaria testing and treatment to those previously unreached, increasing the use of quality data to guide decision-making and monitor progress, and providing global leadership and guidance on best practices for malaria service delivery.
The project will prioritize investment in local organizations and will provide operational and technical assistance to strengthen local entities’ ability to independently implement malaria programs to promote greater country ownership of malaria services.
PMI REACH Malaria will build on more than 15 years of PMI investments in strengthening malaria prevention, detection, and treatment. Malaria is the leading cause of death among children under five in sub-Saharan Africa, and nearly half the world’s population is at risk of its transmission. PMI and its partners around the globe have made remarkable progress in reducing cases and deaths, helping to save 11.7 million lives and prevent approximately 2.1 billion malaria infections since 2000.
About PMI
Led by USAID and co-implemented with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, PMI works in 27 countries in sub-Saharan Africa and three programs in the Greater Mekong Subregion in Southeast Asia — an area representing almost 90 percent of the global malaria burden. PMI delivers cost-effective, life-saving malaria interventions and equips partner countries to end malaria through operational and technical assistance.