MALARIA NO MORE
Malaria No More leverages high - impact awareness campaigns to engaged the world, global advocacy to rally leadership and strategic investments in Africa to accelerate progress, built capacity and save lives.
MEDICINES FOR MALARIA VENTURE
Their mission: reduce the burden of malaria in disease endemic countries by discovering, developing, and facilitating delivery of new, effective and affordable antimalarial drugs
Their vision: a world where this innovated medicines will cure and protect the vulnerable and under-served populations at risk of malaria, and help to ultimately eradicate this terrible disease.
WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION (WHO)
The directing and coordinating for authority for health within the United Nations system. It is responsible for providing leadership on global health matters, shaping the health research agenda, setting norms and standards, articulating evidence-based policy options, providing technical support to countries and monitoring and assessing health trends
UNICEF
is a funding partner, with the World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), and the World Bank of the Roll Back Malaria (RBM)initiative, a global partnership established in 1998 to halve the world's malaria burden.
In recognition of its role as one of the biggest killers of children in Africa, malaria prevention and control interventions from an integral component of a minimum package of UNICEF's high impact maternal and child survival interventions. Integrated programming of this kind utilizes existing systems with relatively high utilization by target groups, including the Expanded Program on Immunization (EPI), Integrated Management of Neonatal and Childhood Illness (IMNCI), child health days for children under five and antenatal care (ANC) for pregnant women
Hey Emily.
ReplyDeleteWow, with all the people and groups with ties to the Malaria epidemic, it seems to me as if it shouldn't even be such a growing concern for the developing world. I guess like any major social justice issue, the problem is sometimes so large that it would take the efforts of countless groups banding together to find a solution. Hopefully through the work of theses organizations, they can bring awareness to everyone, including victims of the disease!