Accra, GHANA ndash; On April 30, 2021, U. S. Ambassador to Ghana Stephanie S. Sullivan joined the Ghanaian government and military officials to inaugurate the Joint Operational Vector-borne Disease Entomology Laboratory at 37 Military Hospital in Accra.
A pregnant woman at her antenatal care clinic visit.
Accra, Ghana – The U.S. President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI) has released its 15th Annual Report demonstrating the significant progress Ghana and the United States have made in partnership
to fight malaria. Ghana’s efforts to sustain essential malaria services amidst the COVID-19 pandemic continues to save lives and the United States is proud to support these efforts under PMI through U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and Centers for Disease Control (CDC) programs.
PMI has partnered with Ghana to fight malaria since 2006, contributing $361 million to date. PMI has supported the purchase and delivery of 19,948,473 bed nets, 19,106,440 doses of antimalarial medications, and 31,407,600 malaria rapid diagnostic tests. The initiative supported the training of 220,627 health workers, while strengthening health systems to reinforce and amplify Ghana’s efforts to end this deadly, yet entirely preventable, di
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This donation of bed nets continues the U.S. government’s commitment to protecting the Malagasy population from malaria
ANTANANARIVO Malaria remains one of Madagascar’s major public health problems. It is the fourth leading cause of disease and one of the top reasons people seek care at health centers. In 2020, nearly two million cases of malaria were reported in the country, almost twice the number of cases reported in 2019.
To help address this challenge, the U.S. government through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI) donated 3,677,000 long-lasting insecticide-treated bed nets (LLINs) to the Ministry of Public Health’s National Malaria Control Program (NMCP).
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A young boy receives a malaria vaccine in Kakab commune’s Chamkar Ovloek village in the capital’s Por Sen Chey district. File Photo Heng Chivoan
PM observes World Malaria Day, noting Kingdom s 71% case drop
Sun, 25 April 2021
Prime Minister Hun Sen has called on all government authorities at all levels to continue their support for the Ministry of Health’s mission to carry out the National Strategic Plan for Elimination of Malaria in Cambodia (2011-2025). Cambodia achieved a 71 per cent in malaria cases compared to 2019.
The call came on World Malaria Day, observed annually on April 25 to raise awareness about malaria and the impacts it has on the health of people around the globe.
AL-MAHRA, Yemen: The King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief), in cooperation with the World Health Organization (WHO), has inaugurated a pesticides spraying campaign in the Yemeni province of Al-Mahra as part of the National Malaria Control Program (NMCP).
The program includes the implementation of a series of residual pesticides spraying campaigns aimed at controlling mosquitos, with the participation of 56 health care workers and 14 supervisors, to combat malaria in the province’s Al-Ghaydah and Saihout governorates.
“The campaign will start from the region of Al-Abri before targeting other regions in the governorate,” the director of Al-Ghaydah said, expressing his appreciation for KSrelief’s role in financing the campaign.