New findings published today by the World Health Organization (WHO) in its annual World Malaria Report show that the disease remains a deadly threat to millions worldwide.
The RBM Partnership to End Malaria calls on country leaders, donors, and policy makers to increase their malaria efforts and get the fight against this disease back on track or risk seeing cases and deaths rise substantially in the coming months and years.
RBM Partnership to End Malaria Board announces new composition structure
Following more than five months of consultation with partners and other key stakeholders, the RBM Partnership to End Malaria Board has announced a series of changes to the organization’s governance structure, marking a pivotal juncture for the RBM Partnership.
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has announced that its Seventh Replenishment Conference, hosted in New York today by President Biden, has raised a total of US$14.25 billion, with more pledges expected over the next few weeks.
On 13 September, African diasporas in France joined African communities and civil society organizations at an event at Paris City Hall to call for a fully replenished Global Fund.
Tuesday 13th September
Just a few days before the Global Fund’s Seventh Replenishment Conference, the malaria community is urging world leaders to deliver a fully replenished Global Fund to help save 20 million more lives from malaria, TB, and HIV over the next three years. This year’s conference takes place in the context of unprecedented global events, but world leaders are asked to remain steadfast in their commitment to funding and combatting these devastating diseases.
The RBM Partnership to End Malaria welcomes two crucial developments that aim to improve access to preventive malaria vaccines for children at risk of the disease.
The Jenner Institute announces the latest trial results for the R21 vaccine
The RBM Partnership to End Malaria welcomes the appointment of Dr David Walton, MD, MPH, as the 4th U.S. Global Malaria Co-ordinator by the U.S. President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI), the U.S. government’s largest programme dedicated to the fight against malaria.
12 August 2022, Dakar, Senegal – On the occasion of International Youth Day, young people across the continent are calling upon their leaders for more sustained action, innovation, and funding to fight back against malaria. In an open letter, also supported by The RBM Partnership to End Malaria and Speak Up Africa, young people vow to be the generation to end malaria, and to not stop fighting until they end this disease as an epidemic by 2030.
1 July 2022: This week, Africa marks the fourth anniversary of the Zero Malaria Starts with Me movement, with 25 countries now part of the grassroots-led campaign to accelerate action on the continent to end malaria.
Kigali, Rwanda, Saturday 25 June 2022 - Announced at the culmination of the 26th Commonwealth Heads of Government (CHOGM) meeting, Commonwealth nations have today committed to work towards ending the epidemic of Malaria by 2030. They further agreed to the delivery of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) road map for Neglected Tropical Diseases (2021-2030) including through endorsing the Kigali Declaration on Neglected Tropical Diseases.