We are excited to announce that the Tony Blair Faith Foundation and Malaria No More are partnering with Project Muso Ladamunen on a Faith Acts initiative to advance collaborations across different faiths toward achieving the Millennium Development Goals and ending the injustices of extreme poverty. The initiative is highlighting Project Muso Ladamunen as an example for how collaboration among those of different religious faiths can help address some of the world's most pressing social problems.

This Summer, Project Muso Ladamunen will formally launch a 5-year pilot program to roll back malaria in Yirimadjo. Based on a Community Health Worker approach, the Community-Based Malaria Program will address malaria through both treatment and prevention efforts. We are two thirds of the way to raising the funding necessary to rigorously implement this program in time for its launch.  Click here for more information and to find out how you can help. 

Participants in the Women’s Education Program began training in bogolan fabric design last month.  Bogolan is a traditional Malian art form, which uses natural mud and plant dyes to create intricate fabric designs with symbolism rooted in Malian history and tradition.  Project Muso has arranged intensive trainings for each class with two of world’s leading bogolan artisans.

Project Muso broke ground this month, with a construction project to more than double the capacity of the Yirimadjo Health Center, as part of the Community Based Malaria Prevention and Treatment Program.  The construction will renovate existing infrastructure and build a new clinical center building, creating two six-bed patient rooms, two consultation rooms, a counseling and testing room, a pharmacy and stock room, and

Project Muso’s Board of Advisors— Arachu Castro, Paul Farmer, Jim Kim, and Molly Melching— includes the world’s foremost leaders in global health. With their international expertise and our strong local roots, Project Muso is in a unique position to implement innovative, informed health initiatives in Mali.

On February 19th, National Public Radio’s Morning Edition aired a story about Mali’s health care system. The story illuminates many of the barriers women face to accessing health care in Mali, within the context of Mali’s fee-for-service health system. Click here to listen to the story.

Project Muso’s programs work with local women to systematically identify and overcome these barriers, so that women and their families can equitably access health care. 

More than one thousand pediatric doses of artemisinin-based combination therapy arrived at the Yirimadjo Health Center in June 2007, to be distributed free of charge to children with malaria under the age of 5. This new policy is a crucial step by the Malian Ministry of Health. A three-day course of artemisinin-based combination therapy can cure malaria,