ZAP Haiti Promotes Zika Prevention through Poetry and Painting In 2016, the Zika virus broke out across Latin America and the Caribbean. Spread by the Aedes ageypti mosquito, the Zika virus can result in serious illnesses, such as microcephaly and Guillain-Barré syndrome. In Haiti, the Ministry of Public Health and Population reported 10 cases of […]
PMI AIRS Project Partners with Local Enterprises to Manage Actellic Bottle Recycling as a Best IRS Practice The U.S. President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI) conducts indoor residual spraying (IRS) to reduce the burden of malaria by spraying insecticide on the walls, ceilings, and other indoor resting places of mosquitoes that transmit the disease. An important part […]
Donated Cardboard Boxes Recycled into Greeting Cards Click on Image AIRS Rwanda donated uncontaminated cardboard boxes that held insecticide bottles to the company Cards for Africa, a fair trade organization that employs Rwandans to produce greeting cards that are sold in Rwanda, the United States, and the United Kingdom. Cards from Africa exclusively […]
