![Staff at the Maternal and Child Health Center in Barumbu, Kinshasa, show packages of insecticide-treated bed nets. The DRC saw a dramatic increase in bed net use, from 6 percent to 56 percent in children under 5, from the 2007 to the 2013 DHS Surveys. Staff at the Maternal and Child Health Center in Barumbu, Kinshasa, show packages of insecticide-treated bed nets.](https://2012-2017.usaid.gov/sites/default/files/styles/square_thumbnail/public/pressreleases/Malaria%20workers%20Kinshasa.jpg?itok=_-Ejzd-y)
The U.S. President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI), led by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and implemented together with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), today released its tenth annual report, documenting progress across its programs including in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
![U.S. Ambassador James Swan (second left) handed a symbol of U.S. food assistance to WFP Country Representative Pablo Recalde. U.S. Ambassador James Swan (second left) handed a symbol of U.S. food assistance to WFP Country Representative Pablo Recalde.](https://2012-2017.usaid.gov/sites/default/files/styles/square_thumbnail/public/pressreleases/WFP%20event%2C%20Goma%2C%203.24.16.%20Photo%20by%20Kaukab%20Jhumra%20Smith%EF%80%A2USAID.jpg?itok=EgUveUJZ)
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has awarded $42.75 million to the World Food Programme (WFP) in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), contributing to food assistance for more than 1.6 million vulnerable people in conflict-affected parts of the country.
![Cleaning coffee cherries at a washing station in South Kivu, DRC. Cleaning coffee cherries at a washing station in South Kivu, DRC.](https://2012-2017.usaid.gov/sites/default/files/styles/square_thumbnail/public/pressreleases/Washing%20Station%202.jpg?itok=Qlh8nvrw)
More than 4,500 small-scale coffee farmers supported by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) in the South Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) are attracting international buyers and making sales to American coffee companies including Starbucks, Counter Culture Coffee and Sweet Maria’s. On March 22, Starbucks launches a high-quality South Kivu coffee supplied by these farmers at nearly 1,500 stores across the United States and Canada, and on Starbucks.com.
![Dr. Diana Putman, USAID/DRC Mission Director, speaks at a press conference with World Wildlife Fund officials in Kinshasa on Feb. 23, 2016, to congratulate the Congolese authorities on their success in disrupting a network of ivory traffickers. Dr. Diana Putman, USAID/DRC Mission Director, speaks at a press conference with World Wildlife Fund officials in Kinshasa on Feb](https://2012-2017.usaid.gov/sites/default/files/styles/square_thumbnail/public/pressreleases/WWF%20press%20conference%20ivory%20seizure%20%202.23.16.jpg?itok=T-2DN-18)
On Feb. 4, Congolese authorities seized approximately 30kg of ivory tusks and ornaments in two separate operations in Kinshasa, confiscating processing equipment and arresting several traffickers. The USAID-funded international organization World Wildlife Fund (WWF), in partnership with national non-governmental organizations, helped authorities follow the wildlife trafficking network for some time before the arrests.
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Plus d’un million de moustiquaires ont été distribuées du 27 au 31 octobre 2015 dans la province de l’Equateur lors d’une campagne financée par l’USAID dans le cadre de l’Initiative du Président Américain contre le Paludisme (PMI).
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