Malaria is among the top five leading causes of death in Madagascar. The disease remains endemic for 90 percent of the country’s population of 26 million. Just one bite from a malaria-infected mosquito can be a death sentence.
Malaria has long been thought of as a disease that is controllable at best — but the global conversation is changing. Now, USAID is working to eliminate malaria, including in Madagascar.
Through the U.S. President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI), USAID and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are on the front lines in the fight against malaria.
Training health care workers, delivering rapid diagnostic tests and medicines, and implementing indoor residual spraying campaigns with effective insecticides are just some of the many ways that PMI is helping to eliminate malaria in Madagascar.
Perhaps most importantly, however, are the long-lasting insecticide-treated bed nets that PMI provides to at-risk Malagasy men, women, and children.
Read more about the work we are doing to prevent Malaria in Madagascar in our Medium article.
