Believe it or not, humans are winning the millennia old fight against Malaria. Last year about 500,000 people died from the disease, mostly in sub-saharan Africa. Fifteen years before that, the death toll was about double that, and the geographic...
Humanity is winning the fight against Malaria. Since the advent of the Global Fund, the Millennium Development Goals and the President’s Malaria Initiative, death and illness rates have dropped precipitously around the globe. Now, talk of total worldwide eradication is not as preposterous...
We need to diversify how we fund the global fight against diseases like Malaria. The term of art for this is "innovative financing for development." The UN has a laboratory for this named Unitaid, and they deserve to win a Nobel Peace Prize.
That's Bishop Thomas J. Bickerton from the people of the United Methodist Church, entertainer and PSI Ambassador Mandy Moore, and Former NBA start Dikembe Mutombo who are joining forces for World Malaria Day.