We’re stepping up the fight to beat malaria.

Campaign Impact

Since 2006, United to Beat Malaria has helped protect over 40 million people from malaria across 61 countries and raised over $75 million in the fight to end malaria. 

Our malaria projects continue to prioritize young children and mothers, pregnant women, refugees and internally-displaced persons, hard-to-reach communities with little to no healthcare access, and frontline health workers who fight malaria in these communities.

Through our Advocacy program, Beat Malaria Champions have continually helped secure increased US funding for life-saving malaria programs such as the President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI), the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (Global Fund), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance (Gavi), and the UN.

Impact Through Advocacy

We also made significant impact through our advocacy work in 2023. With training and support from our Advocacy team, our Champions (i.e. volunteer advocates and partners) led 226 virtual meetings with Congressional offices across 41 states to reinforce the vital importance of US leadership in the fight against malaria.

Thanks to persistent year-round advocacy, Congress approved full funding for The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB, and Malaria and the US President’s Malaria Initiative in its FY24 spending package. Over the years, our advocacy efforts have helped strengthen bipartisan support and secure steady funding increases for vital US-funded malaria programs. Strong investments in these programs not only save millions of lives, but also bolster economies, empower youth, and strengthen health systems and pandemic preparedness throughout the malaria-affected world.

Meet Achol from South Sudan

Achol is a refugee from South Sudan and a mother of four. She fled her home the night her husband was killed. She traveled on foot for seven days over difficult terrain with her youngest in her arms to reach Kakuma refugee camp.

At one point along the way she was separated from her eldest daughter and has not seen her since. She worries about her son and two remaining daughters as many children in the camp have had malaria and some have even died.

Despite her exhaustion, she is among the first to line up the morning that insecticide-treated bed nets, provided by United to Beat Malaria supporters, are being given out to refugee families.

She smiles big when she receives the bed nets that will protect her little ones from this deadly disease. Though many challenges remain ahead, that night Achol slept peacefully for the first time in many weeks, as she knows malaria-carrying mosquitoes will no longer touch her family.

Meet Nancy

Nancy Piruch, a mother, lives in the Kapawi community and has seen her whole family affected by malaria multiple times. Nancy first contracted malaria when she was 11, but it’s more difficult for her to watch her kids suffer from the disease. For her, malaria is a dangerous disease that used to decimate her community. She remembers taking traditional medicine as a child, but now her kids can access diagnosis and treatment at the local health center.

“It is my responsibility to look after my kids and send them to school. Every day I make sure there is food on the table for my family. When one of my kids feels sick, I immediately go to the health center for a doctor’s visit. It worries me when they get sick and start to vomit or develop a fever and chills. It takes a toll on our family when the children get sick. We don’t want to have malaria and hope to work together to fight this disease. Every night we use the bed nets to protect ourselves. I feel more at peace because we are getting malaria under control.”

Ecuador is committed to expanding health coverage across the country, particularly in rural and hard-to-reach areas, by involving all levels of society. From teachers, health workers, and moms like Nancy, everyone has a role to play in ending malaria. Learn more about Ecuador’s fight to end malaria here.