Celebrating Malaria Awareness Day with a No Mosquito Picnic at a Local Winery
5 May 2022

Celebrating Malaria Awareness Day with a No Mosquito Picnic at a Local Winery

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RAM in Southern Region celebrated Malaria Awareness Day with a No Mosquito Picnic at a local winery, generously hosted by Rotarians Ralph and Lesley Zucarro from the Rotary Club of Oakleigh Clayton Huntingdale who own Six Acres. The sun came through after we held our breath that the torrential downpour of rain would pause for our No Mosquito Picnic, and we welcomed District 9810 Governor Dr Daryl Moran and his wife Jenny. Incoming National RAM … Continued

2022 Global Week of Action
10 Mar 2022

2022 Global Week of Action

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Across the world, between 7-11 of March for The Global Week of Action co-organised by Civil Society for Malaria Elimination (CS4ME), Global Fund Advocates Network (GFAN), GFAN Africa, and GFAN Asia-Pacific (GFAN AP), our communities and civil society partners reached out to Embassies and High Commissions of donor countries of the Global Fund to thank them for their contributions to the Global Fund so far – which has saved over 44 million lives, and to call on them for increased pledges … Continued

RAM in 2022
1 Mar 2022

RAM in 2022

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We hope that you are all in good health and not too impacted by Covid 19. There is always light at the end of the tunnel. Thanks to Rotarians Against Malaria this is also the case with malaria. The regions have been busy, for example, the Southern Region raised $10,150 from July 2021 to January 2022 bringing their total raised for Rotarians Against Malaria to $33,350. Discussions are in progress with the Vanuatu government to … Continued

Quarterly Update: August-October 2021
1 Nov 2021

Quarterly Update: August-October 2021

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Written by Kerre Willsher, PhD The Covid19 mayhem means that Rotarians Against Malaria has their work cut out for them in many cases. Fortunately, with the assistance of Rotary Clubs, Districts, and the general public, we are “up to it.” 1.5 million malaria cases and 7.6 million malaria-related deaths have been prevented since 2000 (World Health Organization, 2021). Dr Jenny Kerrison reports that there will be a one-off stipend of $29,500 for a Papua/New Guinean scholar … Continued

Combined drug therapy utilizing Imatinib in the treatment of Falciparum Malaria
28 Sep 2021

Combined drug therapy utilizing Imatinib in the treatment of Falciparum Malaria

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Malaria causes over 400,000 deaths annually and impacts the lives of over two billion people worldwide damaging family livelihoods and national economies (World Health Organization, 2020).  There were 229 million new cases in 2019 (World Health Organization, 2020). Major efforts in recent years have resulted in Malaria elimination in several countries. However, drug resistance is a major threat to elimination, and there are signs of malaria parasite resistance to the Artemisin-based combination therapies (ACT),  currently … Continued

Climate, environment and the transmission of malaria
24 Aug 2021

Climate, environment and the transmission of malaria

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A new report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) – the world’s leading authority on climate science – has warned that climate change will probably cause global temperatures to rise by more than 1.5C, bringing widespread extreme weather. Today we are highlighting a recent article by Antonella Rossati, Olivia Bargiacchi, Vesselina Kroumova, Marco Zaramella, Annamaria Caputo, Pietro Luigi Garavelli on climate, environment and transmission of malaria. We have excerpted the abstract below, and … Continued

The World Health Organization E 2025 Initiative
20 Aug 2021

The World Health Organization E 2025 Initiative

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3.2 billion people are at risk of being infected with Malaria, and each year, more than 400,000 people die of it (Wangdi & Clements, 2018; World Health Organization, 2017, 2021b). The E 2025 initiative developed as the result of the identification by the World Health Organization of another 25 countries that have the capacity to eliminate Malaria by 2025. E2025 builds upon E 2020 which supported 21 countries in their effort to eliminate Malaria by … Continued