For millions of people worldwide, access to essential medicines and healthcare can make the between life and death, and between a life constrained by illness or one filled with possibility. When communities are protected from infectious diseases, people can work, children can go to school, and economies can thrive.
Over the past two decades, the world has made remarkable progress in the fight against AIDS, tuberculosis (TB), and malaria – progress largely made possible by the Global Fund to Fight...
Malaria
This blog was previously published in 2022 and updated in April 2024.
TELL WORLD LEADERS TO HELP END MALARIA
Malaria remains a global health crisis, and it‘s up to advocacy and action from people around the world to end this crisis once and for all. But what do you really know about the disease? Do you know what type of mosquito spreads it? Or what the symptoms are?
Here are 6 facts you should know about malaria.
More than 240 million people...
The Global Fund is an organization designed to end AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria as epidemics. Since its creation in 2002, the Global Fund has helped save 44 million lives and halved the combined death rate from all three diseases.
It has invested more than $53 billion over 20 years. Annually, the Global Fund mobilizes and invests more than $4 billion into programs run by local experts in more than 100 countries to fight all three diseases. The Global Fund and...