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President's Malaria Initiative E-Newsletter

February 2009

Table of Contents

News
Country-Specific Activities
Technical Areas
New and Updated Resources on PMI.gov

News

Photo of Senegalese women hold up a poster to promote PMI-supported IRS activities in the village of Keur Moussa, Senegal.
Senegalese women hold up a poster to promote PMI-supported IRS activities in the village of Keur Moussa, Senegal. Source: Richard Nyberg/USAID

Malaria Communities Program Grantees Awarded
Eight new cooperative agreements have been awarded under the Malaria Communities Program (MCP).

MCP Request for Application Released
The final fiscal year (FY) 2009 MCP request for application (RFA) has been released.

USAID Awards MEASURE Phase III Demographic and Health Surveys Project
The Bureau for Global Health is pleased to announce the award of the MEASURE Phase III Demographic and Health Surveys project to Macro International and a team of five partners.

USAID Provides Malaria Assistance to Zimbabwe
To help mitigate a malaria outbreak in Zimbabwe, USAID is supporting emergency indoor residual spraying (IRS) to fill gaps in the country's traditionally strong malaria control program.

Country-Specific Activities top

Map of Africa with PMI focus countries from the first three years highlighted. New FY 2009 Malaria Operational Plans
The FY 2009 Malaria Operational Plans (MOPs) are now available. The FY 2009 MOPs present a detailed one-year implementation plan for PMI in each designated country. It briefly reviews the current status of malaria control, identifies challenges and unmet needs, and provides a description of planned activities under PMI.

New Contracts and Agreements Under PMI
Read the updated contracts and agreements under PMI. These health programs seek to improve regional malaria prevention and control in each of the 15 focus countries by focusing on areas such as IRS, malaria commodity forecasting, procurement, and supply chain and pharmaceutical management.

Technical Areas top

The Alliance for Malaria Prevention: Expanding the Ownership and Use of Mosquito Nets
The Alliance for Malaria Prevention (AMP) was created to help end malaria deaths and to meet the challenge by U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to cover every man, woman, and child at risk for malaria with a mosquito net by December 31, 2010. The AMP is a subgroup of the Roll Back Malaria Partnership, which represents more than 30 partners, including government, business, and faith-based and humanitarian organizations.

Voices from the Field

Photo of a man spraying a house to prevent malaria.
  Source: C. Campbell

Read success stories about some of PMI’s most effective strategies, including IRS, artemisinin-based combination therapies, and insecticide-treated mosquito nets.

New and Updated Resources on PMI.gov top

PMI and Gender Fact Sheet
The PMI and Gender fact sheet addresses how PMI’s activities pertain to gender-sensitive programming. This fact sheet includes a brief summary on malaria transmission, prevention, and treatment in the context of gender and on how PMI's activities reflect and respect differences between men and women. PMI in-country advisors and USAID health officers may find this information useful in discussions with other partners and stakeholders in the field, as it provides information on how PMI envisions the role of gender in public health program activities. New PMI Web Site
Photo of a man in Tanzania used on the homepage of pmi.gov

The PMI Web site has been redesigned based on the input we received from the country teams during the general meeting in March. The new Web site received new graphics and navigation. More importantly, the new site also gives us the ability to feature more local content from the 15 PMI focus countries. We will work with the country teams to gather updates, stories, and photos to highlight on the Web site. New PMI Publications
Visit www.pmi.gov to download new publications and reports related to PMI activities.
New PMI Job Postings
If you have questions or comments, please contact Chris Thomas at ChThomas@usaid.gov.

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