President's Malaria Initiative

[2] PMI was originally created with a mission to "reduce malaria-related mortality by 50 percent across 15 high-burden countries in sub-Saharan Africa".

[5] PMI currently supports malaria prevention and control for over 500 million at-risk people in Africa.

[6] PMI served as a major component of the Global Health Initiative, a six-year, $63-billion effort proposed by President Obama in May 2009.

In addition to US-based staff at USAID and CDC headquarters, PMI maintains resident advisors from both agencies in each focus country.

[2][4] In 2010, PMI added the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Nigeria, Guinea, Zimbabwe, and the Mekong Subregion.

[2] In 2017, with additional funding from Congress, PMI expanded to 5 more countries: Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire, Niger, and Sierra Leone.