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Senegal is one of 15 countries chosen to benefit from the President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI), which is a 5-year, $1.2 million program managed by USAID, in coordination with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the State Department and the White House. Major malaria activities in 2008 included protecting over 645,000 people by providing indoor residual spraying to 150,000 houses and distributing and promoting over one million long-lasting insecticide treated mosquito nets, especially targeting pregnant women and children under five. To date, PMI has directly supported training and supervision of over 920 health workers at health centers and posts and 236 management staff, representing 100% of health districts in Senegal. Additionally, 3,299 community health workers have been trained by PMI to diagnose and treat cases of uncomplicated malaria using ACTs at health huts, representing 100% of functional health huts nationwide.  From October 2006-September 2008, 67,028 cases of suspected malaria/in children under 5 were treated with ACTs at these community sites.

President's Malaria Initiative (PMI) Project at a Glance

Dates of Project:
2007-2010
Project Budget:
US$ 48,000,000
Objective:
The program's overall objective is to reduce the number of deaths caused by malaria by 50% in 15 African countries, while providing 85% of the most vulnerable groups, most of all pregnant women and children under 5 years of age, with the services, products and medicines that can save their lives.
Regions in Senegal:
All regions of the country.
Partners:
Senegal's National Malaria Control Program, Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, World Bank, Roll Bank Malaria Partnership, NGOs (community groups in particular) and the private sector. 
Planned Results :
By the end of 2010, PMI will help Senegal to realize the following objectives for populations at risk of malaria:
1.       More than 90% of households with a pregnant woman and/or children under five will own at least one Insecticide Treated Mosquito net;
2.       85% of children under five will sleep under a treated mosquito net ;
3.       85% of pregnant women will sleep under a treated mosquito net ;
4.       85% of houses in geographic areas targeted for indoor residual spraying to kill mosquitoes will have been sprayed;
5.       85% of pregnant women and children under five will sleep under a mosquito net or in a house that has been sprayed in the last 6 months;
6.       85% of women who have completed a pregnancy in the last two years will have received two or more doses of preventative treatment during that pregnancy;
7.       85% of government health facilities have artemisinin-based combination therapies (ACTs) available for treatment of uncomplicated malaria; and
8.       85% of children under five with suspected malaria will have received treatment with an ACT within 24 hours of onset of their symptoms.