Home | News & Events | World Malaria Day: With U.S. Support, Malaria Deaths and Infections Decline Significantly in Uganda | April 26, 2021 Kampala, April 26, 2021 – “Let’s be the generation to end malaria,” U.S. Mission in Uganda’s Richard Nelson said at a World Malaria Day commemoration April 25, highlighting renewed hope for ending this deadly disease in our lifetime.
Since the United States President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI) launched 15 years ago, malaria death rates have fallen 60 percent across the 24 PMI focus countries in Africa. In Uganda, United States programs to prevent and control malaria have helped reduce child mortality by 53 percent and lower malaria prevalence among children under five by more than 75 percent.