PMI Impact Malaria

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The U.S. President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI) Impact Malaria program supports countries’ national malaria programs in their efforts to reduce the malaria burden and save lives by improving the quality of health service delivery through the following means:

  • Closing the gaps in malaria service delivery to get the right medicine, with the correct diagnosis, to patients in need, in the timeliest manner.
  • Unlocking the potential of key drug-based approaches, by helping countries to introduce, implement, and scale-up proven innovations to move countries forward in their elimination efforts, according to each country’s unique malaria situation.
  • Strengthening malaria health systems and the use of data for decision making to link operational research and country-led dialogue with global technical leadership for the means of accelerating service delivery improvements and advancing key learnings.

MCD Global Health has been a trusted implementing partner of PMI for more than 15 years and has worked for decades with different countries’ ministries of health across sub-Saharan Africa for malaria diagnosis, quality assurance, case management, and more.

Location

Benin, Cameroon, Cote d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ghana, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Niger, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia, Africa

Partners

PSI, JHPIEGO, and UCSF

Funder

USAID

Website

ImpactMalaria.org

Duration

2018-2023

Contact

Julie Niemczura
Senior Program Manager
jniemczura@mcd.org

Highlights of Our Work

Group of people in DRC with certificates

Course participants gather during the last day of their malaria diagnostics refresher training in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Health workers discussing malaria in pregnancy and OTSS items in Zambia

Health workers providing on-the-job training and mentorship for malaria in pregnancy at a rural hospital in Zambia.

Three people on bench collecting information for survey in Benin

Pregnant women take each other's blood pressure during a group antenatal care meeting in Benin.

Recent activities:

  • Aligned 13 countries with global guidance on malaria diagnosis and case management.
  • Developed interactive e-learning modules on malaria rapid testing (RDTs) for community health workers and piloted virtual malaria microscopy in a real-world setting to improve lab technicians’ skills.
  • Enabled more than 80% of health facilities in PMI countries to have at least one staff member trained in malaria microscopy after five outreach, training, and supportive supervision (OTSS+) visits, compared to only 63% at baseline for more accurate diagnosis.
  • Launched group antenatal care for 1,618 women in Benin’s Atlantique department to scale up uptake of three doses of intermittent preventive treatment of malaria for pregnant women (IPTp) to help prevent malaria in pregnancy and improve social support.
  • Introduced tablet-based surveys as a disruptive technology for frontline health workers to collect data from 18,000 first clinic visits by pregnant women.
  • Provided quality assurance of parasite clearance rates analyzed at the country-level in Niger, Sierra Leone, Kenya, Burkina Faso, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to test for resistance to antimalarial medicines during therapeutic efficacy studies.

News & Updates

Streamlining OTSS with Digital Tool Improves Malaria Diagnostics in Guinea Health Facilities
Group Antenatal Care Effects on Intermittent Preventive Treatment of Malaria in Pregnancy in Benin
Helping Pregnant Women Protect Themselves from Malaria in Zambia