Latest news on malaria 

The news articles are from RBM partners and general world press

• G8 Leaders Pledge $60Billion To Fight HIV/AIDS, Fund Malaria Programs in Africa. [Jun 08, 2007] GlobalHealthReporting.org http://www.kaisernetwork.org/daily_reports/rep_index.cfm?DR_ID=45462

• Scientists closer to predicting cerebral malaria

  http://www.scidev.net/content/news/eng/scientists-closer-to-predicting-cerebral-malaria.cfm

   

• Former US President Bill Clinton launched a programme to make subsidized malaria drug are available in Tanzania in the latest scheme that would serve as a blue print for Africa as a whole http://www.businessdayonline.com/?c=131&a=14923

• New Research Will Raise Awareness Of How To Protect Unborn Children From Malaria.

• Studies conducted at National Institute for Medical Research, Medical Research Division on malaria vaccines recently published. more

• Malaria and extreme poverty.

  http://www.millenniumpromise.org/site/PageServer?pagename=malaria_poverty

• Glow In The Dark GM Mosquitoes Prevent Spread Of Malaria.

• Researchers Identify Key Protein In Immune Response To Malaria And TB. more

• Malaria drug overdose kills 2 kids.

•  Shortage of Health Workers in Developing Countries Undermines Essential Services, Including Treatments for HIV/AIDS, TB, Malaria, WHO Director-General Chan Says. more [2007-04-04]

• 'Malaria atlas' project launched

• Zimbabwe: Ministry to Embark on Malaria Indicator Survey

Zambia Malaria Foundation Youth Envoys Fighting Malaria at the

5th Homeless World Cup-Demark

The Zambia Youth Academy works with young people often orphans, living on the streets due to the devastating impact of HIV/AIDS. Zambia Malaria Foundation has  being working with them and were involved in the in the "Kick Malaria Out of Africa mini tournament" which was held during the Africa Malaria Day-2007 (April 25).   The team has taken up the task of advocate for the fight against malaria during the tournament. The Team will be putting on the Kick Malaria Out of Africa t-shirt as a symbol in the fight against malaria. www.homelessworldcup.org

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ZMF HOLDS WORKSHOPS FOR PARTNERS

Zambia Malaria Foundation Held a Training workshop with its Partner in Lusaka at the Fresh Air House. The Workshop was on Coordination, Collaboration and Networking. It placed emphasis on networking. Members were taken in networking stages and how best partners can contribute. The consultant who facilitated Kalila Chellah emphasized the need for partners not to just look at the benefits they will gain but what can the do for the network. Members of the network should understand their roles and also networks should bring about value. The Network should improve interventions, enhanced capacity in organization and also at individual levels. Partners should be  realistic in resource sharing and that a network is a member driven set up. The attendance might have not being impressive but yet achieved its purpose. The Organizations that participated were: RAPIDS, Zambia Scout Association, Project Support Zambia, Kafue Youth Community, Chelston Community Group, DHMT, PUSH. The workshop was so exciting and the partners participated freely expressing their concerns of which were clarified by the Executive Director for Zambia Malaria Foundation. The partners appreciated the work that ZMF is doing despite the resource constraints. It would be important to see that many partners are involved in the contribution. Many partners have not been not contributed much in information sharing when there was a tool that would shows what they are doing. The E-news created was to have news on the activities that the partners are doing.

The Zambia Malaria Foundation also held a second workshop in  Kitwe on the Copperbelt.   The Executive Director for Zambia Malaria Foundation who went round to explain the plan that ZMF has for all the partners was without doubt one of the achievements that has being pending for a long time. The partnership is important and so need for collaborated efforts if the fight against malaria is to be won.

Vitamin Angels Donates Funds to Buy ITNs

to

Zambia Malaria Foundation

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Vitamin Angels has donated ITNs to Zambia Malaria Foundation. More in the next e-news letter.

Laura Bush and Bill Clinton Visit Zambia

This year is yet another big year in the advocacy for HIV/AIDS and Malaria. Realizing that the two can not be totally separated in this age; it calls for consolidated efforts that will help in interventions that have impacts on the people and the social-economy of the nation. Laura Bush (First lady of the America) visited Zambia on the 28th June 2007, whose visit was to highlight programmes funded by President's Emergency Plan on AIDS Relief and President's Malaria Initiative. Mrs. Bush lauded the partnerships formed between the U.S. and Zambia to address malaria, a treatable and preventable disease that claims more than a million lives every year. She praised Zambia for running an ambitious national malaria control program through effective new medicines, increased use of mosquito sprays and bed nets, saying the country is making great strides against the disease. She said Zambia's anti-malaria efforts are supported by the U.S. government through the U.S. President's Malaria Initiative, a five-year programme with one goal: eliminating malaria in Africa. In partnership with the National Malaria-Control Program, the initiative will help conduct indoor residual spraying, provide life-saving bed nets and medicines and to treat pregnant women who are especially vulnerable.

Former U.S. President Bill Clinton visit was on 21st and 22nd July. Mr. Clinton toured a drug distribution warehouse Medical Stores Limited in Zambia, where his humanitarian foundation is supporting efforts to fight HIV and AIDS. Former U.S. President Bill Clinton on Sunday (23rd July) launched a pilot program to make subsidized malaria drugs available in Tanzania. The project will enable patients in Tanzania to buy life-saving ACT (artemisinin combination therapy) drugs 90 percent cheaper than the current market price. Mr. Clinton told reporters near Tanzania's capital, Dar Es Salaam, no one should die of malaria. The sickness, caused by a parasite carried by mosquitoes, kills three million people globally.

Zambia Malaria Foundation Partner with Barclays Bank  Zambia Plc

Walking One Million Km for communities.

In a project called School Health Program under the Ministries of Health and Education, Barclays Bank Zambia Plc has partnered with Zambia Malaria Foundation as part of the Roll Back Malaria partnership, to co-publish an educational book that will form part of the school curriculum. In a bid to ensure that no child leaves school without knowing what malaria is and no youths becomes a parent without knowing what malaria is.  'Knowledge shared is knowledge gained.' The book will be distributed in conjunction with the Ministry of Education and it's primary objective is to sensitize readers about the dangers of malaria and what is needed to control the disease. The Zambia Malaria Foundation has also willingly agreed to donate a substantial number of Insecticide Treated Nets (ITNs) that will be distributed to the aged and orphans under its equity programme through the Barclays community Social Investment Program .

For further details contact Barclay Bank Zambia Plc. Corporate Affairs Department, Kafue House P.O Box 31936, Cairo Road, Lusaka. Zambia. Tel: +260 21 1 228858/66

2006 National Malaria Indicator Survey

2006 National Malaria Indicator Survey is available ,it can be viewed on the National Malaria Control Centre Website. Click here  2006 National Malaria Indicator Survey to view

To the Editor

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