Madrid, Spain—An ambitious effort has been launched to prevent malaria in pregnancy in communities in sub-Saharan Africa. This innovative initiative will complement existing antenatal care services and increase pregnant women’s opportunities to access care under a grant agreement signed today by Unitaid and Jhpiego, an international nonprofit health organization and affiliate of the Johns Hopkins
Unitaid invests $50 million in an innovative project to ensure that pregnant women in malaria-affected countries in sub-Saharan Africa have expanded access to a preventive therapy for malaria.
Chinyere Francis loved working on her farm in the rural town of Ikwo in southeast Nigeria. But she worried that neither her earnings nor her husband’s $15 monthly income as a pastor in his local church were enough to take care of their growing family. With the latest addition—their tenth child—the couple appeared exhausted at the prospect of yet another mouth to feed.
