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
504, 2020
Kenya’s Community Health Volunteers Turn the Tide Against Malaria on Lake Victoria
Photos Credit: Catherine Ndungu, PMI Impact Malaria. The [...]
903, 2020
Zambia’s Rainy Season: Peace Corps Volunteers Take on Malaria
While the rainy season might not sound like an ideal [...]
801, 2020
Racing to Prevent a Malaria Outbreak Among Malawi’s Cyclone Survivors
Malawians were able to overcome possibly the deadliest tropical storm [...]
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.
Learn more about PMI’s support during the pandemic
