EPHI and PMI-Ethiopia/CDC/USAID held a collaborative meeting.
The main aim of the meeting was to strengthen collaboration, and coordination and to reduce replicated efforts to “curb the current surge and eliminate malaria” through digitalized surveillance, immunization, data sharing, surveys, and quality laboratory systems. To that end, all parties have agreed to collaborate and coordinate different malaria tasks together and set a follow-up platform to regularly update the status of malaria activities.
Dr. Getachew Tolera, Deputy Director General of the Ethiopian Public Health Institute (EPHI), stated that PMI is one of the main partners in the malaria controlling and elimination program in Ethiopia. EPHI is mandated and experienced in generating evidence for decisions at the national level and we eagerly need the PMI’s unreserved collaboration and coordination support. Partnership is a very important synergetic approach to eliminating malaria. Thus, we should act together to reverse the current malaria challenge in our country.
At the end of the meeting, the PMI team visited the EPHI’s Genomic Core Facility and Malaria Molecular Laboratory.