The U.S. President’s Malaria Initiative has set some ambitious goals for investing locally. These include providing more funding directly to local organizations and countries and increasing the volume of health commodities it procures from the African continent.
The goals are set out in a vision statement published in August, where PMI said it is “deliberately working to shift more leadership, decision-making, and implementation to local partners to ensure sustainable, effective, and equitable malaria services and stronger health systems.”
PMI is a United States government initiative set up in 2005 to help control and eliminate malaria, a life-threatening disease that caused the deaths of 608,000 people in 2022 — the majority of which were in Africa. PMI works with 30 countries — mainly in Africa — providing lifesaving malaria interventions, investing in research, and helping strengthen health systems.