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Abt Associates Expands Efforts to
Reduce Burden of Malaria in Africa:
Wins Major Contract to Work in 15 Countries
Building on Abt Associates’ work to eradicate and reduce the burden of malaria across Africa, USAID has awarded Abt a three-year, $268 million contract to continue work on the President’s Malaria Initiative-funded Africa Indoor Residual Spraying (PMI AIRS) project. The PMI AIRS contract builds on Abt’s current work on the AIRS project, which has protected millions of people, including 2 million women and children under 5, in Africa from malaria.
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SHOPS Marketing Partnership Increases Sales of Zinc and Reduces Childhood Diarrhea
Sales of zinc products, such as Zintab - a zinc sulfate tablet - to curb childhood diarrhea, have more than tripled in remote regions of Ghana as a result of a successful marketing partnership with M&G Pharmaceuticals managed by the Abt Associates-led, USAID-funded Strengthening Health Outcomes through the Private Sector (SHOPS) project.
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Shifting and Improving
Gender Norms for Maternal Health
“Today the picture has changed drastically, to where it is now everyone’s responsibility to make sure that no woman should die when and after giving birth. I saw the need for male involvement not only as a community leader, but also as a father. As custodians of culture and tradition, our main role as community leaders is to talk about negative cultural and traditional beliefs and practices that may affect the [health] program." -Chiyendeyende Adams Zimba, Group Headman of Lukwizizi Community Rural Health Center
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Projects in Mali Contributed to Reduction in Child and Maternal Mortality
Mali is experiencing steady improvements in the use of health services and health impact indicators in key, highly populated regions, where Abt Associates led the implementation of a two-phased flagship USAID health bilateral projects across Mali with a primary focus on improving service delivery at the primary care level – the Assistance Technique National (ATN) project, from 2003 to 2008 and the ATN Plus project from 2008-2013.
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