President's Malaria Initiative

President's Malaria Initiative
U.S. Government global health program
Launch year2005
Implementing agenciesUSAID, CDC
Key officialsU.S. Global Malaria Coordinator
Focus countries24 (+ 3 programs in the Greater Mekong Subregion)
Budget$723 million (FY17)

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.[2]

PMI was originally created with a mission to "reduce malaria-related mortality by 50 percent across 15 high-burden countries in sub-Saharan Africa".[2] PMI has since expanded to 24 malaria-endemic countries in sub-Saharan Africa and 3 additional countries in the Greater Mekong Subregion of Southeast Asia, where it seeks to further reduce malaria burden and assist countries in achieving malaria elimination.[3]

PMI works closely with national malaria programs and global partners including the World Health Organization, Roll Back Malaria, and Global Fund.[4] Global malaria efforts, including those of PMI, have cut malaria mortality by over 60%, saved nearly 7 million lives, and prevented more than 1 billion malaria cases between 2000 and 2015.[5] PMI currently supports malaria prevention and control for over 500 million at-risk people in Africa.[3]

  1. ^ "Can Malaria Be Eradicated?". Council on Foreign Relations. Retrieved 2018-10-13.
  2. ^ a b "About | PMI". President's Malaria Initiative.
  3. ^ a b "The President's Malaria Initiative, 12th Annual Report to Congress" (PDF). PMI.gov. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-09-04. Retrieved 2018-10-13.
  4. ^ Loewenberg, Samuel (2007-12-08). "The US President's Malaria Initiative: 2 years on". The Lancet. 370 (9603): 1893–1894. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(07)61795-4. ISSN 0140-6736. PMID 18074434. S2CID 5269671.
  5. ^ "WHO | World malaria report". WHO. Archived from the original on April 16, 2013. Retrieved 2018-10-13.