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Zim set to receive US$14m from US malaria initiative

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ZIMBABWE is set to receive US$14 million from the United States President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI) this year as malaria continues to be a major health problem in the country.

The PMI currently supports 24 countries in sub-Saharan Africa and three programmes across the Greater Mekong sub-region in southeast Asia to control and eliminate malaria.

Zimbabwe began receiving support as a PMI partner country in 2011.

The fund will support interventions such as vector monitoring and control, malaria in pregnancy, case management, health supply chain and pharmaceutical management, social and behaviour change, surveillance as well as monitoring and evaluation programmes.

It will also support malaria research.

PMI anticipates that the national malaria control programme will shift additional districts and wards from in-door residual spraying to insecticide-treated mosquito nets (ITNs) in the coming years, which will further increase the need for ITNs.

“Using 2023 Malaria Operational Plan funds, PMI will continue to provide limited technical assistance for IRS implementation at the central level and in selected districts. PMI will also continue to direct substantial resources towards the procurement and distribution of ITNs. Finally, PMI will continue to fund a local entity to conduct and strengthen entomological monitoring through a PMI supported laboratory and insectary, including support for established longitudinal monitoring sites in Mashonaland East province and the cultivation of field collection skills at additional sites in Manicaland, the province with the highest malaria transmission in the country,” the US President’s Malaria Initiative Zimbabwe Malaria Operational Plan FY 2023 read.

It said PMI would collaborate with the Global Fund and the Department of Pharmaceutical Services and other partners to co-ordinate procurement and delivery schedules to ensure appropriate stock levels to cover up to the year 2024.

It will support case management, distribution of artemisinin-based combination therapies, malariarapid diagnostic tests, and injectable artesunate, as well as national policy support and provision of technical assistance.

The support is also expected to improve stock levels by providing technical assistance to the roll-outof an electronic logistics management information system and improving commodity distribution forms at the community level to eventuallyprovide disaggregated health facility and village health worker commodity data.

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