About ZAPIM

The USAID Zimbabwe Assistance Program in Malaria Project (USAID/ZAPIM)

On September 25, 2015, Abt Associates (Abt) was awarded a five-year cooperative agreement by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to provide support to Zimbabwe to conduct malaria prevention and control in 15 malaria high burden districts and one low burden district working towards malaria elimination. The purpose of the Zimbabwe Assistance Program in Malaria (ZAPIM) was to work under the leadership of the Ministry of Health and Child Care/National Malaria Control Programs to:

Improve capacity to appropriately manage malaria patients
Prevent malaria during pregnancy
Strengthen monitoring and evaluation to track data to guide decision making
Expand control of mosquitoes that carry malaria primarily through consistent use of long-lasting insecticide treated nets

Deploy social behavior change communication strategies that empower Zimbabweans to prevent and rapidly seek treatment for diagnosis/treatment of malaria
Perform supportive studies, for example therapeutic efficacy studies that ensure malaria curative drugs are working effectively and not showing signs of drug resistance

View the ZAPIM in Brief brochure.

Funder

U.S. President’s Malaria Initiative

The U.S. President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI) supports 24 partner countries in sub-Saharan Africa and three programs in the Greater Mekong Subregion in Southeast Asia to control and eliminate malaria. PMI delivers cost-effective, life-saving malaria interventions—such as insecticide-treated bed nets, indoor residual spraying, and essential medicines—alongside catalytic technical and operational assistance to equip and empower partner countries to end malaria. PMI is a multi-agency initiative, led by USAID and co-implemented with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). PMI also has strong support from, and collaborates closely with, the Department of Defense; the National Institutes of Health; Peace Corps; and other U.S. departments, agencies, and programs. To learn more about the U.S. President’s Malaria Initiative, visit pmi.gov.

Implementing Partners

Abt Associates

Abt Associates leads the ZAPIM consortium of partners and is responsible for overall quality of project implementation and achievement of results. Abt also leads the project’s work in LLINs, national-level SBCC, and M&E.

Save the Children

Save the Children has expertise in Community Case Management and community SBCC. Responsible for overseeing technical aspects of these activities at the central level, and it provides technical guidance to the MoHCC district malaria teams located in ZAPIM-supported districts.

Jhpiego

Jhpiego, which has expertise in national-level CM and MIP, is responsible for overseeing technical aspects of clinical CM at the national level and provides technical guidance to the MoHCC provincial and district malaria teams located in ZAPIM-supported districts.