How can Uganda save the 100,000 lives a year that are currently taken by malaria? This is the question that a new national multi-sectoral malaria reduction task force will examine as part of an effort that the Uganda Minister of Finance announced during a recent
On World Malaria Day, CCP’s Voices for a Malaria-Free Future celebrates the success of United Against Malaria (UAM), a diverse team of partners harnessing momentum to end malaria deaths worldwide. We honor champions like Yvonne Chaka Chaka, South African superstar and Roll Back Malaria Goodwill
From January 19 to February 10, all of Africa will be abuzz as 16 national teams compete for the Africa Cup of Nations, the continent’s biggest prize in football. But if United Against Malaria (UAM) and the Confederation of African Football (CAF) have their way,
The United Against Malaria (UAM) campaign achieved a new level of visibility when President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia offered a ringing endorsement last month. Surprising fans at a football (soccer) game in Monrovia, she received a “Golden Boot,” UAM’s leadership award, for her role
There’s good news on the global malaria front. Despite financial constraints in Washington, the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate have upheld commitments to malaria control spending in the 2013 fiscal year, passing bills that will continue to fund efforts to save lives. Last
JHU∙CCP’s Voices III: Malaria Powerbrokers project has demonstrated that the private sector is a necessary partner in the fight against malaria. Voices III, a two-year, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation-funded project, seeks to mobilize political and popular support for malaria control with the help of
Four years ago, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation hosted its first Malaria Forum, engaging hundreds of leading scientists, health advocates, policy makers and government leaders in a three-day discussion about malaria, one of the world’s oldest and deadliest diseases. Since then, measured progress—bolstered by
Social enterprise may be the key to advancing malaria control and other public health initiatives in the global marketplace, according to a panel of experts jointly organized by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Center for Communication Programs (JHU∙CCP) and the Global Social
For years the National Unity Games have provided Ghana’s preeminent young athletes an ideal setting for competition, fraternity and cultural celebration. The annual ten-day event now also raises support for malaria control, thanks to an effort by the United Against Malaria partnership, the National Sports
Every day in Africa, cell phones are used to connect hundreds of millions of people, share information among businesses and transfer bank funds from one end of the continent to the other. Now they are being used to empower health advocates to combat an age-old
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