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
Read ArticlePart 10 of our Malaria Gamechangers series (check out Episodes 1-9) highlights outdoor mosquito management. Controlling mosquito populations, from the larval to the adult stage, has long been a cornerstone of local, regional, and country-level efforts to combat malaria, along with other mosquito-borne diseases like West Nile, dengue, Zika, and yellow fever. It takes an … Continued
Read ArticleIn a highly uncertain budgetary and political landscape, United to Beat Malaria welcomes the second package of final Fiscal Year 2024 (FY24) appropriation bills. The spending package includes $795 million for the U.S. President’s Malaria Initiative, level with the FY23 enacted budget, and $1.65 billion for The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, … Continued
Read ArticleMarch Madness has arrived! And to celebrate, we’re excited to introduce our new campaign ambassador, Jeremiah Nyarko. A native of Ghana, Jeremiah is a budding basketball star who will play for Arizona State University next season. Amazingly, Jeremiah has only been playing basketball for six years; he grew up playing soccer in the suburbs of … Continued
Read ArticleWe could not be prouder of the work you accomplished at Summit! Because of your hard work and dedication, we engaged more than 160 Congressional Offices from 41 states to advocate for strong bipartisan leadership and robust funding for the U.S. President’s Malaria Initiative; the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria; Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance; UNICEF; … Continued
Read ArticleImagine a company that puts purpose before profit. Next, imagine a world where all business and profit are driven by the goal of supporting local and global grassroots campaigns. For the past five years, I have been working for a brand called Cotopaxi whose goal is to alleviate poverty. Cotopaxi is an outdoor brand based … Continued
Read ArticleUnited to Beat Malaria invites you to go the extra “kilometer” in the fight to beat malaria. Between April 25-May 5, 2024, join supporters around the world for the third annual Move Against Malaria 5K, a virtual event to raise awareness and funds to support lifesaving malaria tools and programs. We want to make this … Continued
Read ArticleChampions, Thank you for joining our training webinars leading up to our 2024 United to Beat Malaria Leadership Summit which will be held in Washington, D.C. March 10-12, 2024! You can register below for the trainings and all recordings and slides will be posted here: Monday, January 22 Webinar – Recording | Slides Monday, February … Continued
Read ArticleWe’re excited to welcome three new interns for the spring semester! Our next intern spotlight features Apurva Joshi, our new Development and Partnerships intern. Check out the Q&A below! Tell us about yourself! My name is Apurva Joshi and I am pursuing a degree in International Affairs at George Washington University with a minor in … Continued
Read ArticleWe’re excited to welcome three new interns for the spring semester! Our second intern spotlight features Krutika Patel, our Grassroots Advocacy intern. Check out the Q&A and the video below! Tell us about yourself! My name is Krutika Patel and I am a recent graduate from Johns Hopkins University. I majored in International Studies and … Continued
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