Thank you to all the Champions who raised their voices in support of life-saving global malaria programs during our September virtual meetings!  Because of your efforts, Meetings with Congress were a massive success! Champions representing 35 states interacted with 84 Congressional offices! Congressional offices heard directly from constituents on the value of US leadership in Global Health ..read more

Thanks to the commitment of Champions like you, we have made great strides in securing funding to support malaria elimination efforts. As we look towards the election cycle it’s important that we keep up the steady drumbeat of support for malaria programs. Together, we have the opportunity to continue to strengthen our relationships with members of Congress by leading virtual meetings through the month of September.    This year, meetings will take place from September 5th through September 19th with specific sets of states meeting on designated dates. Champions will be grouped ..read more

The United Nations Foundation’s Shot@Life and United to Beat Malaria campaigns have joined forces with the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) to launch a new initiative – Healthy Start for Refugee Children – that will provide essential healthcare for 1 million refugee and displaced children living in camps and host communities across East Africa. GENEVA, May 29, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — The United Nations Foundation’s Shot@Life and United to Beat Malaria campaigns have joined forces to launch a new initiative – Healthy Start for Refugee Children- with the goal of providing 1 million refugee and dis ..read more

Last week, U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), Ranking Member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, introduced a resolution affirming continued U.S. support for the purchase of life-saving vaccines for lower-income countries through Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, as a cost-effective, efficient means to end preventable child and maternal deaths around the world.  Gavi plays a critical role in procuring malaria vaccines. Funding for Gavi ensures more children have access to malaria and life-saving routine child immuni ..read more

In honor of the 18th anniversary of the Nothing But Nets article, we are excited to announce United States Liability Insurance (USLI) as the winner of the second annual Rick Reilly Award. The Rick Reilly Award is awarded to a United to Beat Malaria fundraiser who has implemented innovative and bold community-based fundraisers. USLI is our longest-standing corporate partner. Inspired by the original column in 2006, USLI has contributed over $418,000.00 to United to Beat Malaria to protect more than 128,000 people. USLI engages their employees, employees’ families, customers, and communities to ..read more

This World Malaria Day, United to Beat Malaria grassroots advocacy Champions rallied their communities in support of strong funding for global programs working to combat malaria. The United to Beat Malaria grassroots team is pleased to share these highlights from Champion activities for World Malaria Day:  Phone Calls to Congress In total, Champions made 52 total phone calls to their Members of Congress on World Malaria Day. This is an increase from 20 calls made for World Malaria Day last year! 14 additional calls were made earlier in April by students at the University of Florida – Gai ..read more

“As the world’s attention is drawn elsewhere, the people of South Sudan are enduring unimaginable hardship, grappling with ongoing conflict, mass displacement, the ravages of climate change, and an exorbitant cost of living.” – UN Asst. Secretary-General Shoko Noda.  To commemorate World Malaria Day (April 25), all month long we are raising funds to provide urgent malaria prevention and treatment to South Sudanese refugees in Ethiopia’s Gambella region. The scale of the humanitarian crisis in South Sudan is staggering: in a country of 12 million people, 9 million South Sudanese are i ..read more

As United to Beat Malaria College Ambassadors, we were privileged to participate in the United to Beat Malaria Leadership Summit. It provided a platform not only for learning from fellow advocates and malaria experts but also for sharing our endeavors as youth advocates committed to health equity. Our role as College Ambassadors empowers us to underscore the importance of youth engagement in advancing global equity initiatives such as the Sustainable Development Goals. It’s imperative that we continue integrating young voices into such crucial spaces to drive meaningful progress. As World Mala ..read more

Dear UTBM Champions:  April 25 is World Malaria Day, and we have three (3) quick-and-easy advocacy actions you can take to raise awareness and ask your policymakers to support strong funding for programs working across the globe to end malaria.   Action #1: Follow this script to call your three members of Congress and ask them to support strong funding for programs including the President’s Malaria Initiative, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB, and Malaria, CDC, UNICEF, and Gavi. The whole process should take you just a few minutes to complete your 3 calls and can make a big dif ..read more

Part 10 of our Malaria Gamechangers series (check out Episodes 1-9) highlights outdoor mosquito management. Controlling mosquito populations, from the larval to the adult stage, has long been a cornerstone of local, regional, and country-level efforts to combat malaria, along with other mosquito-borne diseases like West Nile, dengue, Zika, and yellow fever. It takes an integrated strategy that includes removing mosquito habitats, larvicide and adulticide spraying, and surveillance of mosquito species and breeding areas. But the impact of sustained mosquito control are profound: mosquitoes kill ..read more