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
Traditionally a married couple remembers the details of their wedding day for life. In Mali, the district malaria advocacy teams known as Comités de Veille, or Community Watch Committees (CWCs), understand this way of thinking. Mayors, who act as members of the CWC, realize the
CCP’s Voices project rolls out its 485 campaign in the run-up to World Malaria Day, April 25th. The campaign celebrates the progress made and the return on investment in saving lives – 485 a Day – thanks to proven malaria control interventions that work, sustained
Aluminum-sheet structures visible from the road to Kilosa, Tanzania, appear to be agricultural storage sheds, but at closer range, the smoke and cacophony of sounds from kids playing and crying tell a different story. This is a small community—one of four allocated for flood victims.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon’s challenge to the world in 2008 to achieve universal coverage with malaria prevention by the end of 2010 was both a bold call and a serious technical challenge. Since that time, the global malaria community has responded in an unprecedented effort
“Six years ago we used to record around 600 deaths due to malaria, and last year we only had 10 or 12 deaths,” said Mr. Abdullah S. Ali, Director of the Zanzibar Malaria Control Program during a recent visit with Congressional offices on Capitol Hill.
On March 17, 2011, CCP’s Voices for a Malaria Free Future program co-hosted a panel session on Capitol Hill entitled “Demonstrated Impact in the Fight Against Malaria: Success through Partnership and Leadership.” The session, co-sponsored by the Malaria and Neglected Tropical Diseases Congressional Caucus and
Dr. Matt Lynch, director of CCP’s Global Program on Malaria, addressed a crowd of 20,000 people on live television in Swahili at the national Mwenge celebration in Kigoma, Tanzania on October 14, 2010. The Mwenge is the Uhuru (freedom) torch which, since independence, is taken
Bed nets and mosquitoes are not often mentioned as sources of inspiration for fashion designers, but they featured prominently at this year’s Swahili Fashion Week. Swahili Fashion Week is an annual fashion extravaganza for designers from Swahili-speaking countries. It promotes the “Made in East Africa”
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