CDC Awards President’s Malaria Initiative Grants To Four Projects Working in Tanzania, Equatorial Guinea, Uganda
In support of the President's Malaria Initiative, CDC has awarded $750,000 to four projects working to prevent malaria in Tanzania, Equatorial Guinea and Uganda, according to a CDC release (CDC release, 11/9). President Bush in June announced the $1.7 billion initiative, which also aims to promote education and women's rights on the continent. The majority of the total proposed aid -- $1.2 billion over the next five years -- will be used to reduce by half the number of malaria-related deaths in 15 African countries (GlobalHealthReporting.org, 9/15). The following organizations will use the funding to support malaria prevention programs:
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JHPIEGO, an affiliate of Johns Hopkins University, will expand malaria prevention efforts, such as the distribution of insecticide-treated nets, among at-risk pregnant women and children younger than five years old in Tanzania. The program's partners include the Tanzanian Ministry of Health, Caritas Tanzania and the White Ribbon Alliance for Safe Motherhood.
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Medical Care Development International will work with the Equatorial Guinean Ministry of Health and the Bioko Island Malaria Control Project to expand its current malaria prevention programs and strengthen the country's National Malaria Control Program. BIMCP is funded by Marathon Oil.
- The Research Triangle Institute will work on ways to expand the use of ITNs in Uganda, with a focus on internally displaced persons in two camps in Lira District. RTI is working with the country's Ministry of Health and the Christian Children's Fund.
- The University of California-San Francisco will track the effectiveness and safety of artemisinin-based combination therapies to treat malaria in Uganda. UCSF will work in conjunction with the National Malaria Control Program, the Ministry of Health, the Ugandan Malaria Surveillance Program and Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda (CDC release, 11/9).
