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  and children in Africa.  || ||  ||  PMI is a collaboration of the Agency for International Development (AID), headquartered in Washington D.C, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC),headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.  || ||  || In 2005 former president George Bush commissioned PMI with 15 target countries including Angola, Benin, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya,Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Rwanda, Senegal,Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia.    || ||  || PMI offers high-impact interventions includes  insecticide-treated mosquito nets (ITNs),  || || <span style="font-size: 80%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"> || <span style="font-size: 80%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">indoor residual spraying (IRS) with insecticides, <span style="font-size: 80%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"> <span style="font-size: 80%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"> <span style="font-size: 80%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"> <span style="font-size: 80%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"> || || <span style="font-size: 80%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"> || <span style="font-size: 80%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">intermittent preventive treatment for pregnant women (IPTp), <span style="font-size: 80%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"> <span style="font-size: 80%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">and artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACT). <span style="font-size: 80%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"> || || <span style="font-size: 80%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"> || <span style="font-size: 80%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"> <span style="font-size: 80%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">PMI has been able to prevent the spread of malaria <span style="font-size: 80%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"> <span style="font-size: 80%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">through four major techniques: <span style="font-size: 80%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"> <span style="font-size: 80%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">Indoor Residual Spraying (IRS), <span style="font-size: 80%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"> <span style="font-size: 80%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">distribution of mosquito nets, malaria vaccines, and the prevention of malaria in pregnant women || || <span style="font-size: 80%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"> || <span style="font-size: 80%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">-IRS- <span style="font-size: 80%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"> <span style="font-size: 80%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">is the process of spraying insecticide on the surfaces of houses or dwellings, <span style="font-size: 80%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"> <span style="font-size: 80%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">places prone to malaria. The insecticide prevents the spread of malaria by killing all <span style="font-size: 80%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"> <span style="font-size: 80%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">of the female mosquitoes that come in contact with the surface which is used by <span style="font-size: 80%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"> <span style="font-size: 80%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">the mosquitoes as a resting place. This works because female mosquitoes are capable of <span style="font-size: 80%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"> <span style="font-size: 80%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">spreading malaria while the male is not. || || <span style="font-size: 80%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"> || <span style="font-size: 80%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">Mosquito Nets- <span style="font-size: 80%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"> <span style="font-size: 80%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">are hung over beds so as to offer protection from mosquitoes at night. <span style="font-size: 80%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"> <span style="font-size: 80%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">These are the most basic protection from malaria. || || <span style="font-size: 80%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"> || <span style="font-size: 80%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">-Malaria Vaccines- <span style="font-size: 80%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"> <span style="font-size: 80%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">are distributed from public clinics and are capable of completely curing malaria || || <span style="font-size: 80%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"> || <span style="font-size: 80%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">Prevention of Malaria in Pregnant Women- <span style="font-size: 80%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"> <span style="font-size: 80%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">can be achieved with two to three doses of sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine (SP) <span style="font-size: 80%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"> <span style="font-size: 80%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">administered to a pregnant woman during the second and third trimesters of pregnancy. Since more than seventy percent of pregnant women <span style="font-size: 80%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"> <span style="font-size: 80%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">in Africa attend antenatal clinics at least once during their pregnancy, the provision of medicine during antenatal care visits is practical and convenient. || || <span style="font-size: 80%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"> || <span style="font-size: 80%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">Since its creation in 2005, PMI has shown remarkable results including Tanzania. PMI first came to Tanzania in 2005 <span style="font-size: 80%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"> <span style="font-size: 80%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">and distributed 130,000 free bed nets through local public clinics within less than a year. PMI also established the free market-based <span style="font-size: 80%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"> <span style="font-size: 80%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">strategy for delivering these nets for malaria prevention. Millions of treatment doses of highly effective malaria treatment were delivered to isolated <span style="font-size: 80%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"> <span style="font-size: 80%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">rural districts for more than 4 years. <span style="font-size: 80%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"> ||
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