Last year, the World Health Organization (WHO) recommended the first-ever malaria vaccine – RTS,S – for widespread use in sub-Saharan Africa, where nearly half a million children die each year from the mosquito-borne disease. This historic recommendation paved the way for Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, to invest over $150 million in the deployment of this … Continued
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Washington, D.C. – The World Health Organization (WHO) announced today that El Salvador has been certified as malaria-free. “Today is a momentous day in the global fight against malaria,” said Nothing But Nets campaign Executive Director Margaret Reilly McDonnell in response to the news. “El Salvador’s hard-fought journey to achieve malaria elimination is a model … Continued
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Today, the World Health Organization (WHO) released its 2020 World Malaria Report, an annual report that provides a comprehensive update on global and regional malaria data and trends. The report tracks investments in malaria programs and research, as well as providing data on malaria prevention, diagnosis, treatment and surveillance. This year’s report additionally frames the past two decades of progress against malaria and addresses the … Continued
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Earlier this week, the President released his budget request for 2020, and has chosen to slash foreign aid funding by 24%. Taking money away from these accounts means fewer bed nets and rapid diagnostic tests, less medications and treatments, and more lives threatened every night by this preventable, treatable disease.
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Nothing But Nets has worked in partnership with UNHCR to distribute over 2 million bed nets to refugee settlements throughout Africa, often in rapid-response after a mass migration has occurred.
Our UN partners are vital to our work and to the work the global malaria community does to end this disease.
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Nothing But Nets recently visited Southeast Asia to better understand how countries like Thailand and Bangladesh are fighting malaria. While there, we got to see the amazing work of UN agencies like UNHCR and UNICEF.
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Removing malaria from the equation removes a handful of other barriers that women across the world face, like missing school and work, riskier pregnancies, and cost of accessing medical services.
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The International Day of Happiness is an official UN day that “recognizes the pursuit of happiness is a fundamental human goal and the need for a more inclusive, equitable and balanced approach to economic growth that promotes sustainable development, poverty eradication, happiness, and the well-being of all peoples.”
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Today, during the 70th World Health Assembly, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, former Minister of Foreign Affairs and Minister of Health of Ethiopia, was elected as the new Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO).
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