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The President's Malaria Initiative (PMI) is a U.S. Government initiative to control and eliminate malaria, one of the leading global causes of premature death and disability. [1] The initiative was originally launched by U.S. president George W. Bush in 2005, and has been continued by each successive U.S. president.
Anne Linn, a senior community health adviser at the USAID-led President’s Malaria Initiative who was laid off amid the agency’s upheaval, said that as contractors were let go and direct hires ...
The U.S. is the top donor in the global fight against malaria, mostly through the President's Malaria Initiative, known as PMI, set up under former President George W. Bush in 2005. PMI’s ...
The U.S. Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria Act of 2003 [13] (or the Global AIDS Act) specified a series of broad and specific goals, alternately delegating authority to the president for identifying measurable outcomes in some areas, and specifying by law the quantitative benchmarks to be reached within discrete periods of ...
Panjabi was the first Asian American and first person born in Africa, where malaria remains endemic, to serve in the role. The U.S. President's Malaria Initiative, [23] led by the U.S. Agency for International Development and co-implemented with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
It lists activities tackling tuberculosis, malaria, acute risks of maternal and child mortality, including severe acute malnutrition, and other life-threatening diseases and health conditions.
Malaria still kills about 600,000 people each year worldwide – most of them children under the age of five. But in the countries where the USAID-run President’s Malaria Initiative operates ...
The Coordinator of United States Government Activities to Combat Malaria Globally, known usually as the U.S. Global Malaria Coordinator, is an official overseeing all U.S. Government worldwide activities to combat malaria, most notably the President's Malaria Initiative.