About End Malaria
In June 2008, World Vision launched a major initiative to reduce the illness and death caused by malaria. World Vision aims to contribute to a 75 percent reduction in malaria cases, with the end goal of nearly zero preventable malaria deaths by 2015. This will be achieved by:
- Extensively distributing long-lasting insecticide-treated bed nets;
- Advocating that the U.S. government increased funding for malaria to at least $1 billion per year;
- Developing corporate partnerships to leverage resources like bed nets and medication;
- Increasing World Vision's private income for malaria programs;
- Strengthening and expanding a public movement in the United States to eradicate malaria.
This initiative will allow us to expand and enhance our existing anti-malaria programs. World Vision works in 62 malaria-endemic countries, 23 of which are in sub-Saharan Africa, and we are experienced in providing malaria prevention and treatment solutions in local communities. To strategically address this threat, we are scaling up our malaria prevention and treatment efforts. Our wide range of malaria prevention and treatment options include:
- Insecticide-treated bed nets distribution
- Community education
- Environmental management
- Treatment for pregnant mothers
- Anti-malarial drugs provision
- Case management and referrals for patients
However, no single response can defeat malaria. So we are part of a growing global movement to combat malaria with strong coordination between governments, businesses, non-governmental organizations, local citizens, and supporters like you.
Child Health Now
End Malaria is part of World Vision’s Child Health Now campaign, a global effort to end preventable child deaths.
Did you know that more than 24,000 children under age 5 will die today of preventable causes including malaria, HIV and AIDS, pneumonia, diarrhea, measles, and complications during pregnancy and after birth?
The tragedy is that proven, simple and low-cost solutions to these child killers already exist. Yet world leaders lack the will to roll them out across poor countries where they’re most needed, condemning nearly nine million children a year to die needlessly.
What’s worse is that world leaders, including ours, have made many promises to keep children healthy — promises that have been broken.
The goal of World Vision’s Child Health Now campaign is to hold government leaders accountable for one of their least kept promises: Cut the number of children under five who die by two-thirds by 2015. (This is the fourth Millennium Development Goal.) Six million children a year will survive if they keep this commitment.
Reducing child deaths caused by malaria by providing bed nets is one of the easiest and simplest things we can do to keep vulnerable children alive.
Join our End Malaria campaign and together we can help end preventable child deaths.
Members of the World Vision Malaria Campaign Advisory Council
Mrs. Laura Bush
Former First Lady of the United States
Mr. Rick Sutcliffe
ESPN Analyst and Major League Baseball Cy Young Award Winner
Mr. Ray Chambers
Special Envoy of the United Nations Secretary-General for Malaria
Mr. Scott Case
CEO, Malaria No More
The Honorable Donald Payne
U.S. House of Representatives
Daniel A. Hussar, Ph.D.
Philadelphia College of Pharmacy
*Additional members being added.
:: Read more about the End Malaria Council
