Abt Associates will lead a team of commercial, academic and nonprofit organizations to carry out an $809 million project for the United States Agency for International Development under the U.S. President’s Malaria Initiative.
The team received a five-year contract to help USAID conduct indoor residual spray campaigns, distribute insecticide-treated nets and implement larval source management as part of the Prevention of Malaria through Vector Control project, Abt Associates said Tuesday.
USAID, which serves as the lead agency of PMI, worked with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to implement the initiative. The government has helped prevent an estimated 2 billion infections and saved 11.7 million lives across the globe through the initiative since 2000.
Under the PMVC contract, Abt will work with nonprofit organizations PATH, Population Services International and Malaria Consortium.
Other partners include the University of Oslo’s Health Information Systems Program Centre, which has affiliates in Uganda and West and Central Africa, and the University of California, San Francisco’s Malaria Elimination Initiative.
Private companies BAO Systems, Dimagi, EnCompass and Tropical Health are also part of PMVC.
Abt previously supported the PMI VectorLink Project, which the company says included vector control measures that protected over 35 million individuals from the mosquito-borne disease.
