Meet Teresa Bumba, a licensed nurse in Angola who works in a busy emergency room. In Angola, malaria is responsible for 60 percent of hospital admissions in children less than five years of age, 35 percent of the overall deaths in children under five years of age, 40 percent of prenatal deaths, and more than 25 percent of maternal deaths.
Thanks to a donated tablet, free data, and a new interactive eLearning platform called KASSAI, Teresa was able to recently take a course called “Malaria in Children” to sharpen her physical examination techniques and recognition of severe malaria danger signs.
PMI introduced KASSAI through USAID/Angola’s Health for All (HFA) project in collaboration with the Angola Ministry of Health and Apply People, an Angolan digital innovation company. Since KASSAI launched in 2021, it has 12,000 users and counting. A key benefit is that health workers like Teresa are able to keep learning even when participating in in-person training is difficult due to distance or COVID-19 protocols.
PMI also funds the supervision of health workers in partner provinces to continuously monitor and improve the quality of their malaria service delivery, other forms of training, and equips them with lifesaving supplies such as rapid malaria tests and antimalarial medicines.