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By Anne Bulchis, PMI Impact Malaria Communications Manager, and Kate Wolf, PMI Impact Malaria Technical Advisor As part of advancing global malaria service delivery, PMI Impact Malaria (IM) supports countries in their efforts to strengthen the quality of malaria services in health facilities and at the community level. IM’s quality assurance approach encourages continuous improvement of the competencies of health providers through a systematic and standardized series of country-driven interventions, including mentorship to improve workplace performance and provide ongoing professional devel...

By Anne Bulchis, PMI Impact Malaria Communications Manager, with content from PMI Impact Malaria’s Cameroon and Niger teams. “No child in my community has had severe malaria in recent years,” explained Hadiza, a 39-year-old mother who lives in Niger, where malaria transmission spikes dramatically during the rainy season. Parents who have seen a child sick from severe malaria don’t ever forget it. High fever, convulsions, and respiratory distress are common. It’s a disease that progresses rapidly. Severe malaria is a major cause of death among young children in sub-Saharan Africa. In...