Health Systems Strengthening

Helping partner countries address service delivery, health workforce, information systems, access to essential medicines and commodities, financing, and governance

PMI works to reduce the burden of malaria while also strengthening partner country health systems and workforces.

In countries where malaria typically accounts for 30 to 40 percent of outpatient visits and hospital admissions, a reduction in malaria cases allows overstretched health workers to concentrate on managing other important childhood illnesses, such as pneumonia and diarrhea.

PMI’s experience shows that malaria control activities are most successful when countries take ownership and lead these efforts. Therefore PMI works to ensure that country programs possess appropriately-skilled human resources and infrastructure to plan, implement, and monitor progress of their malaria control activities.

STORIES ABOUT STRENGTHENING HEALTH SYSTEMS

106, 2023

Researchers and Donors Collaborate to Ensure the Fight Against Malaria is Informed by Quality Data

Avery Avrakotos2023-06-01T18:07:10+00:00Categories: 2023, Stories|Tags: Benin, Community Health, Côte d’Ivoire, Health Systems Strengthening, Monitoring and Evaluation, Nigeria, Uganda|

]: Without timely and reliable data on confirmed malaria cases, it is difficult for those leading the fight against malaria to determine where and how to focus resources or measure the impact of activities. The U.S. President’s Malaria Initiative, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and African researchers have come together to assess the accuracy of malaria surveillance data so that national malaria programs have the information they need to protect populations and save lives.

203, 2023

Keeping Families Safe by Strengthening the Supply Chain for Critical Malaria Commodities in Rwanda

Avery Avrakotos2023-05-10T13:49:56+00:00Categories: 2023, Stories|Tags: Health Systems Strengthening, Rwanda, supply chain|

Supporting supply chain professionals with the right training and tools to do their work is helping ensure that people in Rwanda have access to the medicines and insecticide-treated nets they need to stay safe from malaria

2202, 2023

When Malaria Control and a Cholera Outbreak Coincide: Integrating Prevention Approaches in Malawi

Avery Avrakotos2023-05-10T13:50:06+00:00Categories: 2023, Stories|Tags: Health Systems Strengthening, indoor residual spraying, Malawi|

Responding to the cholera outbreak in Malawi—while also conducting a campaign to spray homes with insecticide to protect residents from malaria-carrying mosquitoes—required diligence and creativity by health officer Lilian Chimbayo and spray campaign managers and staff.

Malaria and COVID-19

Thanks in large part to financial support and technical guidance from PMI, our partner countries were able to continue their malaria prevention and control programs during the coronavirus pandemic. The capacity and systems PMI helped countries to strengthen to combat malaria also positioned them to better respond to COVID-19.

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