The cuts at USAID, and specifically at the President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI), are having a material effect on malaria control activities.
The freezing of funds and cancellation of funding, contracts and programmes have created funding gaps and near-term operational challenges.
The immediate focus for AMF, co-funding partners, national health systems and other partners is on those programmes that are due to take place in the next three to nine months. The funding cancellations and uncertainties have created either doubt as to programme continuance or issues that require immediate resolution.
We will write more in the coming weeks and months as the situation becomes clearer.
In the meantime, it seems that the gaps in funding for critical malaria control programmes will increase.
It will not be surprising to hear that AMF would be very interested to hear from any individual or philanthropic group with significant funding that would be interested in supporting malaria control activities. Equally, every US$2 (and equivalent) donation matters, as is evidenced by the more than 139,000 donations received by AMF this year that are AMF’s life-blood, as each net protects two people when they sleep at night - and absolutely matters to the mum and baby or two children that sleep under it at night.
AMF continues to work hard with you for a malaria free future.