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DESCRIPTION:When COVID-19 began spreading across the globe\, the World Heal
 th Organization (WHO) called on countries to continue malaria services to p
 revent further strain on fragile health systems. Preventable malaria cases 
 competed with COVID-19 cases for hospital beds and medical attention\, and 
 malaria protection would also allow countries’ health systems to adaptively
  allocate funds to emerging health crises\, including COVID-19\, rather tha
 n malaria. Heeding WHO’s call was essential\, and the U.S. President’s Mala
 ria Initiative (PMI) VectorLink Project needed to continue to be implemente
 d while also protecting frontline health workers\, staff\, partners and com
 munity members from COVID-19. Contending with border closures\, national lo
 ckdowns and drastic cost increases in the production\, supply and delivery 
 of malaria commodities\, the project has successfully carried out more than
  30 high-quality\, on-time IRS campaigns since February 2020 and helped to 
 distribute nearly 12 million ITNs\, despite the challenges presented by the
  pandemic. This seminar will be led by Brad Longman\, the PMI VectorLink pr
 oject’s regional vector control manager responsible for vector control oper
 ations across 24 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia. He will discuss 
 how the project identified ways to adapt its implementation of a variety of
  malaria vector control activities to the COVID-19 context through innovati
 ve approaches\, allowing for minimal coverage disruptions of life-saving in
 terventions while mitigating the COVID-19 risk from project activities to c
 ommunity members and project staff.
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SUMMARY:Malaria: Lessons from adapting vector control activities in Africa 
 during COVID-19
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URL:https://events.oregonstate.edu/event/malaria_lessons_from_adapting_vect
 or_control_activities_in_africa_during_covid-19
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