Today, the World Health Organization (WHO) released its 2024 World Malaria Report, an annual report that provides a comprehensive update on global and regional malaria data and trends. This century, remarkable progress has been made against malaria, one of the world’s oldest and deadliest diseases. According to the 2024 World Malaria Report: Since 2000, the malaria … Continued
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Today, the World Health Organization (WHO) released its 2024 World Malaria Report, an annual report that provides a comprehensive update on global and regional malaria data and trends. This century, remarkable progress has been made against malaria, one of the world’s oldest and deadliest diseases. According to the 2024 World Malaria Report: Since 2000, the malaria … Continued
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Thank you for your interest in the United to Beat Malaria Leadership Summit! The application period is now closed. Please text CHAMPION to 1-833-904-4739 to receive advocacy updates and learn more about qualifying to attend our next summit! Summit season has officially arrived! We are absolutely thrilled to be able to gather in Washington, D.C. on … Continued
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Thank you to all the Champions who raised their voices in support of life-saving global malaria programs during our September virtual meetings! Because of your efforts, Meetings with Congress were a massive success! Champions representing 35 states interacted with 84 Congressional offices! Congressional offices heard directly from constituents on the value of US leadership in Global Health. … Continued
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The Senate Appropriations Committee advanced with bipartisan support a Fiscal Year 2025 (FY25) international affairs bill that sustains strong funding levels for the U.S. President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI); The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria; and other global health programs that are critical to the malaria fight, including the World Health Organization UNICEF, … Continued
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Thanks to the commitment of Champions like you, we have made great strides in securing funding to support malaria elimination efforts. As we look towards the election cycle it’s important that we keep up the steady drumbeat of support for malaria programs. Together, we have the opportunity to continue to strengthen our relationships with members … Continued
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The House Appropriations Committee approved the Fiscal Year 2025 (FY25) spending bill proposed by the House State, Foreign Operations and Related Programs Subcommittee (SFOPS). Though this budget proposal includes some positive indicators, it’s also cause for great concern for the fight against malaria and global health community. The House SFOPs appropriations bill includes $800 … Continued
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Last week, U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), Ranking Member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, introduced a resolution affirming continued U.S. support for the purchase of life-saving vaccines for lower-income countries through Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance (Gavi), as a cost-effective, efficient means to end … Continued
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This World Malaria Day, United to Beat Malaria (Beat Malaria) grassroots advocacy Champions rallied their communities in support of strong funding for global programs working to combat malaria. The United to Beat Malaria grassroots advocacy team is pleased to share these highlights from Champion activities for World Malaria Day: Phone Calls to Congress In total, … Continued
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Dear United to Beat Malaria Champions: April 25 is World Malaria Day, and we have three (3) quick-and-easy advocacy actions you can take to raise awareness and ask your policymakers to support strong funding for programs working across the globe to end malaria. Action #1: Follow this script to call your three members of Congress … Continued
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