CCP Helps Recognize ‘Malaria Champions’
Led by PAHO, an annual award highlights achievements in the fight against malaria in the Americas – and brings awareness that the work isn’t done.
Led by PAHO, an annual award highlights achievements in the fight against malaria in the Americas – and brings awareness that the work isn’t done.
“If you really want to eliminate malaria, you have to look at what’s causing the remaining malaria cases once you have good prevention tools in place,” says CCP’s April Monroe.
The Victoria and Albert Museum’s “rapid response collecting” program has been acquiring contemporary objects since 2014. The emoji, championed by CCP, joins a host of other items that “reveal truths about how we live.”
“If we are serious about malaria control, it is abundantly clear that more [nets] need to be delivered than we are currently providing,” writes CCP’s Hannah Koenker.
“The idea of replacing mass campaigns with yearly school net distributions was pretty revolutionary, frankly,” says CCP’s Hannah Koenker. “It hadn’t ever been tried on such a large scale.”
Experts, including some from CCP, came together for Mission Mosquito, a global health security and public communication forum hosted by the U.S. Department of State, which sought to address how innovative health communication approaches and partnerships can help improve responses to mosquito-borne diseases.
Yekee, a longtime CCP staffer in Liberia, was beloved by her colleagues. “She was magnetic,” one recalled. “She had a knack for bringing people together.”
Videos released for World Malaria Day tell the stories of the people who CCP’s VectorWorks project and the Tanzanian government rely on to help them prevent malaria.
A media campaign in Liberia increased the odds that young children with fevers quickly received appropriate malaria treatment.
The mosquito emoji, proposed by CCP and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and approved by the Unicode Consortium, is coming to your smartphone this summer.
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