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PMI: Presidents Malaria Initiative - Saving lives in Africa.

Monitoring and Evaluation

  Photo of a man displaying a stack of boxes.
  A health worker in a health facility in Angola displays ACTs. PMI monitors the availability of key malaria commodities, such as ACTs, through quarterly end-use verification surveys in PMI focus countries.
Source: A. Spiers/USAID Angola

The goal of PMI is to reduce malaria-related deaths by 50 percent in 15 focus countries. This will be achieved by expanding coverage of highly effective malaria prevention and treatment measures to 85 percent of the most vulnerable populations — children under 5 years of age and pregnant women. This package of high-impact interventions includes insecticide-treated mosquito nets (ITNs), indoor residual spraying (IRS) with insecticides, intermittent preventive treatment for pregnant women (IPTp), and artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACT). PMI has a single set of country-level targets for the four major control measures, which are the same for each focus country.

  • More than 90 percent of households with a pregnant woman and/or children under 5 will own at least one ITN;
  • 85 percent of children under 5 will have slept under an ITN the previous night;
  • 85 percent of pregnant women will have slept under an ITN the previous night;
  • 85 percent of houses in geographic areas targeted for IRS will have been sprayed;
  • 85 percent of pregnant women and children under 5 will have slept under an ITN the previous night or in a house that has been protected by IRS;
  • 85 percent of women who have completed a pregnancy in the last two years will have received two or more doses of IPTp during that pregnancy;
  • 85 percent of governmental health facilities will have ACTs available for treatment of uncomplicated malaria; and
  • 85 percent of children under 5 with suspected malaria will have received ACT treatment within 24 hours of onset of symptoms.

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