A health worker, testing children for malaria along Namibia's border with Angola, wears a t-shirt showing the collaborative effort of the Elimination 8 campaign.
More Dying of Malaria than Covid - What Can Be Done?
International organizations working to sustain the dramatic reductions of malaria deaths across Africa are calling for a 'holistic' approach to intertwined crises in health, climate and environmental destruction. Hundreds of thousands of people, mostly children, die of malaria every year and progress against the killer disease - which cut deaths in half - has stalled. Advocacy and health groups say Covid-19 should prompt an integrated response to make progress towards malaria elimination, even while Covid is tackled.
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Africa: Faith, Philanthropy, Community - How to Save Hundreds of Thousands from Malaria Amid Covid-19
allAfrica, 2 December 2020
The J.C. Flowers Foundation and Friends of the Global Fight Against AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria ('Friends') are focusing attention on how faith leaders, philanthropists and… Read more »
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African actions to fight malaria since 2000 have saved nearly eight million lives, especially of African children, on a continent that suffers the highest burden of ... Read more »
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Zambia: Religious Leaders Pushing for Malaria Elimination in Western Province, Zambia
J.C. Flowers Foundation, 5 November 2020
Over 35 Religious Leaders from the seven church mother bodies (Evangelical Fellowship of Zambia – EFZ, Independent Churches of Zambia – ICOZ, Islamic Supreme Council of… Read more »
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Zambia: Anglican Clerics Lead by Example to Address Rising COVID-19 and Malaria Cases in Zambia
J.C. Flowers Foundation, 18 August 2020
The Coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) has already killed at least 260 Zambians and has infected at least 9,900 more according to the Ministry of Health. The numbers might have been… Read more »
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Africa: Angolan Religious Leaders Launch an Interfaith Commission for the Fight against Malaria
J.C. Flowers Foundation, 12 December 2019
The Angolan Council of Christian Churches (CICA) and the Anglican Diocese of Angola convene leaders from government and civil society to announce their leadership in advocacy for… Read more »
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J.C. Flowers Foundation, 20 May 2019
The Council of Anglican Provinces of Africa (CAPA) prioritizes the role of faith leaders in malaria elimination. Read more »
