USAID and its U.S. Presidentâs Malaria Initiative have awarded the Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs a five-year, $40-million contract to distribute insecticide-treated mosquito nets to the residents of Tanzania and Zanzibar.
Current interventions in place to protect people from malaria â most notably insecticide-treated mosquito nets and indoor spraying â work well, but new CCP research suggests that, in many places, more is needed to eliminate the threat.
A new CCP-led study found that targeting men, travelers and seasonal workers could accelerate elimination of malaria in Zanzibar.
âIf you really want to eliminate malaria, you have to look at whatâs causing the remaining malaria cases once you have good prevention tools in place,â says CCP's April Monroe.
On World Malaria Day this year, the âWorld Health Organization (WHO) is calling on countries and their development partners to...
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