Audit of USAID/Tanzania?s Ongoing Activities under the President?s Malaria Initiative
/ 2011

Although malaria is a preventable and treatable disease, it is estimated to cause between 300 million and 500 million illnesses annually and kill up to 2 million people each year. More than 90 percent of these illnesses and deaths occur in sub-Saharan Africa. In most of sub-Saharan Africa, children under 5 and pregnant women are the most vulnerable to infection since they have little or reduced immunity.1 In the United Republic of Tanzania, 93 percent of the 40.7 million people on the mainland and all 1.2 million people on Zanzibar are at risk for malaria.2 As shown in the map below3, the rate of prevalence of malaria among Tanzanian children under 5 exceeded 30 percent in some areas.