Making a difference to stop Malaria from killing children.

1. MAKING A
DIFFERENCE
Malaria No More
By Marge Culver

2. What is Malaria?
Malaria is caused by a parasite that is carried
by Mosquitos
Mosquitos carries the parasite from a infected person to uninfected person.

3. Malaria kills
• Malaria kills 3000 children a day
• 40 percent of the world’s population lives in
the high risk areas for malaria
• Over million people die from Malaria each
year .

4. The challenges:

5. Challenges:
1. Drug resistance
2. Cost and supply
3. Bed net use

6. Malaria
The single greatest
risk factor for death is
during the first
month of life .

7. Making a difference in child survival
1. Supplying affordable anti-malaria
interventions.
2. Developing policies with governments
and advocating for more resources and
attention to biggest killer of children in
Africa.

8. Cost and supply
■More effective
therapies
needed .
70 per cent of malaria cases
are resistant to cheap existing
antimalarial drugs
■Bed net use is
needed.
Fewer than 5% of
Children sleep
under a net
The use of a net
can reduce
malaria by 50 %.

9. The use of ACT for treatment
Rapid diagnosis and treatment is needed to save lives.

10. Global Goals:
■ Reducing malaria cases by 75 percent by 2015
■ Reducing global malaria deaths to Zero by 2015
■ Eliminating malaria in 8-10 countries by 2015
■ Eliminating malaria in the European region by 2015