EVENTS
World Malaria Day 2008 Events & Activities
Welcome to our list of World Malaria Day events.
Full index lists are provided by country below.
If you have any questions or want your event added to the list, please contact info@mobilising4malaria.org
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1. Title: 'Malaria: A Plague of the Poor (or see here)
Event: April radio special by Rebecca St James (American singer)
Date: 25th April 2008
Organiser: Compassion International
Description: Compassion's half hour radio special will feature stories of African families affected by the disease, which kills 1 million people each year.
2. Title: "Oklahoma Malaria Awareness Day"
Event: State-wide observance of "Malaria Awareness Day" as proclaimed by Governor Brad Henry on 28th March 2008
Date: 25th April 2008 and 5th May 2008
Organiser: His Nets (http://www.hisnets.org/)
Description: Oklahoma Governor Brad Henry issued a proclamation on March 26, 2008, designating April 25, 2008, as "Oklahoma Malaria Awareness Day," in "recognition and appreciation of the humanitarian activities of His Nets" - a Norman,OK, based NGO that delivers mosquito nets to African countries to prevent malaria.
Over the past three years, His Nets volunteers and partners have delivered almost 30,000 high-quality mosquito bed nets to families in sub-Saharan Africa at high risk of malaria. The nets are provided to target families free of charge and are purchased via gifts and donations. Net distributions are performed by volunteers traveling at their own expense to African countries including: Angola, DR Congo, Ghana, Kenya, and Sudan. During 2008, these countries will be expanded to include: Liberia, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Uganda and India. The primary purpose of "Oklahoma Malaria Awareness Day" is to the encourage citizens of the State of Oklahoma to learn more about the scope and devastating consequences of malaria and to identify ways in which they can affect the lives and health of people "half a world away from the citizens of Oklahoma." At the local level, the City of Norman, Oklahoma, has scheduled an event for 5 May 2008 - "Norman 'GETS' Malaria." [See attached flyer]. This event will include a presentation by the First Lady of Oklahoma (Kim Henry) who with tell of her experiences of participating in a His Nets distribution project with her husband (Governor Henry) in Ghana in June of 2008. A sort course concerning malaria ("Malaria 101") will also be presented by His Nets public health advisor. The His Nets projects planned for 2008 will be presented.
To download the flyer, click here
3. Title: Malaria Workshop, learn about the effects of malaria and how you can help prevent the disease
Event: Lunchtime event with free food!
Location: University of Southern California (USC) , Marshall School of Business, JKP - ROOM 104
Date: April 25, 2008: 12NOON to 1PM
Sponsors/Organisers: Net Impact, Sonicwave Media & Save My Soul - Music to Prevent Malaria
Contact: Free Lunch to everyone who RSVP's: RSVP now - email : aliyahle@usc.edu
CONTACT aliyah levin aliyahle@usc.edu
310-809-2977
ed lyman e.lyman@sonicwave.com
310-622-3743
To download the flyer, click here
4. World Bank Africa Malaria Day, Washington DC
Singer Youssou N'Dour will give a 30-minute malaria advocacy concert in the premises of the World Bank in Washington DC. The event will bring together global partners, including the African Diplomatic Corps, representatives from NGOs and the civil society, and World Bank employees from Washington DC and Africa country offices.
5. A new interactive game showcasing how insecticide-treated bed nets get delivered in Africa to prevent malaria
Description: Urging millions around the world to "play the game" and "deliver nets," the UN Foundation's Nothing But Nets campaign launched a new interactive game showcasing how insecticide-treated bed nets get delivered in Africa to prevent malaria. Throughout April, partners of the United Nations Foundation's Nothing But Nets will donate $10 to Nothing But Nets for each person who signs up to play "Deliver the Net," a new online game that teaches users about bed net distribution and challenges individuals to deliver as many virtual nets as possible before the sun goes down and malaria-carrying mosquitoes come out to bite.
Go to http://www.nothingbutnets.net/its-easy-to-help/wmd
6. Idol Gives Back!
On Wednesday April 9th, starting at 7:30/6:30c, FOX, AMERICAN IDOL and the Idol Gives Back Foundation present a second installment of the popular TV event to help children and young people in extreme poverty here at home in the U.S. and around the world.
Go to http://www.americanidol.com/idolgivesback/
7. UC Davis Malaria Awareness Day
Description: To increase public awareness about malaria, plans are under way for the second annual Malaria Awareness Day on UC Davis campus. The event, set from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday, April 25, in the University Club Lounge, will include talks on malaria, a short movie, an African drumming performance, dancing and food. The event, free and open to the public, is being organized by the UC Mosquito Research Program, a statewide program of the UC Agriculture and Natural Resources; and the Entomology Graduate Student Association, affiliated with the UC Davis Department of Entomology.
Go to http://www.dailydemocrat.com/news/ci_8851049
8. World Malaria Day celebration in ALL Nations African Seventh-Day Adventists Church located in San Bernardino, California on April 26, 2008. We will make a short presentation on what malaria is and how it affects many people especially sub-Sahara Africans.
For more information go to http://www.tagnet.org/africanchurch/
9. NGO Field Experiences in the Fight Against Malaria
Date: Monday, April 21, 2008
Time: 3:30-5:00 followed by a Reception
Location: Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center: Continental Rooms (see detailed directions below)
Christian Children's Fund and Johns Hopkins University Center for Communication Programs would like to invite you to a Panel Discussion and Reception highlighting the efforts of NGOs in the fight against malaria. Kindly RSVP to Amanda Rives, Policy Advisor, CCF, at alrives@ccfusa.org or 202-955-7951.
Panelists will detail:
* Community-based programming in Uganda
* Civil society actions in Ghana
* NGO experience with the President's Malaria Initiative in Tanzania
* School-based programming in Malawi
Maurice Middleberg, Vice President for Public Policy, Global Health Council, will moderate the panel. The Panel will be immediately followed by a Reception with remarks from David Shanklin, Senior Program Health Specialist, Christian Children's Fund.
Panelists:
James Pimundu, Christian Children's Fund Uganda
Emmanuel Fiagbey, Voices Ghana
Timothy McCully, Lutheran World Relief
Seung-hee Lee, Save the Children
For more information please contact Amanda Rives on aragenal@CCFUSA.ORG
10. Global health leaders will stand shoulder to shoulder at the United Nations Headquarters in New York to debut new commitments, outline a roadmap for success, and introduce new tools to track progress and rally governments, corporations, international institutions, foundations, and private citizens to the cause of ending malaria deaths.
11. Congressional Briefing: World Malaria Day 2008: Toward Eradication - Malaria's Next Frontiers
23 April, Noon-1:30 pm
In honour of the first World Malaria Day (formerly "Africa Malaria Day"), please join the Global Health Council, Johns Hopkins University Voices Project and PATH as we address the next frontiers in the malaria prevention, control and treatment. The expert panelists will discuss both innovations and challenges in some of the field's most pivotal areas, including research and development, strengthening health systems, and tackling high-burden countries.
For more information please see http://www.globalhealth.org/calendar.php
12. Interview with Nicole K. Bates on Combating Malaria: What More Can We Do Now?
Online Chat with Dr. Nicole Bates, sponsored by: Global Health Council and Population Reference Bureau.
See http://discuss.prb.org/content/interview/detail/2231/
13. Ivory Coast Medical Relief Team (ICMRT), in Seattle Washinton will be having an awareness campaign at the Central Market in Shoreline on Fiday April 25 by handing out malaria information, and answering questions.
For more information contact Alain Adjorlolo on aaadjorlolo@mac.com
14. A Conference on the occasion of the First World Malaria Day at Georgetown University
April 25, 2008
The symposium will begin at 9 a.m. in Gaston Hall, and the day will include panel discussions on the burden of malaria, prevention and cure of the disease and policy challenges and action. Some of the panelists include Adm. Timothy Ziemer, President George W. Bush's Malaria Initiative coordinator; Dr. Joel Breman, senior scientific adviser at the National Institutes of Health's (NIH) Fogarty International Center; and Nell Temple Brown of the WHO
To view the programme, click here
For more information, click here
BENIN See document under French activities
BRUSSELS
Title: EPF Working lunch around the first World Malaria Day, European Parliament, Strasbourg, 23 April 2008
Description: On the occasion of World Malaria Day 2008, EPF will organise a working lunch buffet in the European Parliament in Strasbourg on Wednesday 23rd April 2008, hosted by Hon. Thierry Cornillet, MEP (ALDE, FR) member of EPF Taskforce on Malaria and Hon. Anne Van Lancker, MEP, EPF President. The key message for this first World Malaria Day is that "Malaria is a disease without borders" and that it is necessary to intensify efforts to control the disease worldwide. The key speakers, including a representative from the Global Fund to fight HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, a representative from the Roll Back Malaria Partnership and the CEO of the Kenya NGO Alliance Against Malaria (Kenaam) will present the challenges and the current global efforts in the fight against malaria as well as the good results obtained up to now, emphasising the fact that "Investing in Malaria pays'.
Event: Working lunch buffet
Date: April 23, 2008, European Parliament, Strasbourg, France
Time: 1 pm - 3 pm
Organisers: European Parliamentary Forum (EPF), with the kind support of the Red Cross/EU Office, both members of the "European Alliance Against Malaria"
For more information please contact: Silvia Theodoridis (EPF) at silvia@iepfpd.org
BURKINA FASO
See document under French activities
1. Title: World Malaria Day Reception
Date: Friday, April 25th, 2008 at in Memorial Hall at City Hall, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m
Description: BUY-A-Net will be hosting their 2nd Annual World Malaria Day reception, sponsored by B'Nai Brith and KPMG. It follows the proclamation issued by Mayor Harvey Rosen was distributed to all municipalities in Canada by the Federation of Canadian Municipalities on March 5, 2008, urging all to recognize World Malaria Day in their jurisdictions, and urging each to do their part to save lives from malaria.With greetings from Kingston Mayor Harvey Rosen, guest speakers include:
H.E. George Abola, High Commissioner from Uganda, Senator Hugh Segal, and Marie-Michelle Jobin, Youth Ambassador, BUY-A-NET Malaria Prevention Group with a special performance by the Dragon Drummers, an exciting and energetic children's drumming group under the direction of Ms. Jodie Compeau
For information, please contact BUY-A-NET Malaria Prevention Group
http://www.buyanet.ca/ by calling 1(613)542-1264, or e-mail at buy-a-net@cogeco.net
2. Title: Canadian Red Cross and award-winning producer Firdaus Kharas join forces to fight malaria
21 April, 10 am
Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Room 2-2 (Former Press Club), 150 Wellington Street
Ottawa-based Chocolate Moose Media founder, Firdaus Kharas, will screen "Buzz&Bite", a series of comedic public service announcements to promote malaria prevention around the world. Canadian Red Cross Secretary General Conrad Sauvé will also announce the latest results from the Centers for Disease Control regarding the impact of the Canada-funded distribution of nearly 2.7 million mosquito nets in Sierra Leone and Mali. As well, former broadcaster and Red Cross Ambassador Nam Kiwanuka will announce a national challenge for Canadians to double the impact of their donation to the Malaria Bites Campaign.
For more information go to http://www.redcross.ca/article.asp?id=027015&tid=001
CAMEROON
1. See document under French activities
01 March - 31 May
Nigeria, Angola, Chad, Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea
In April and May of 2008, Drive Against Malaria will visit the low-lying coastal regions of West Cameroon, delivering more than ten thousand insecticide-treated mosquito nets to pregnant women and children under the age of five - the groups most affected by malaria.
For more info, click here
3. Cameroon Coalition Against Malaria activities
- Press conference with the Minister Of Health will be organised by the National Malaria Control Programme
- Production of 12 minute documentary on malaria
- Launch the CCAM magazine - the first of a 6 monthly update of malaria news in Cameroon and around the world, to inform the general population on issues related to malaria. It will be a bilingual magazine.
- During April - resource persons will visit churches during their weekly services and give short talks on malaria control. This activity will be co-organised by CCAM and INTER-NAP, a network of FBOs and Congregations.
- Launch of the Malaria Practical Guide - this has been developed to respond to the need of the general public in providing basic information on malaria for individuals and/or groups interested in malaria control.
- Mobilise youth in 500 schools in Yaoundé on the fight against malaria - they will demonstrate their prowess in drama, sketches, poems, or drawings to depict their understanding of the topic and how they can participate in the control of malaria both at school and at home.Zonal competitions will select the best two from each of the 7 zones. Among these the best 10 will perform to a wider audience in a later date on or around the World Malaria Day celebration proper.CCAM member partner, CASA (Cameroon Association of School Administrators) will take the lead in organizing this activity.
For more information please contact Esther Tallah esthertllh@yahoo.com
In Ethiopia World Malaria is being celebrated on April 23rd at Awassa Town, Southern Region, due to the 25th being Ethiopian Good Friday.
There are several activities including exhinitions, different sport competitions, drama, poems, question and answer contest, etc.
On April 23 at 2:00-4:00 p.m. there will be a panel discussion in the presence of media and key partners on the timely malaria issue: status of malaria in Ethiopia and as how to maintain the momentum.
For more information please contact infomcesa@malariaconsortium.org
As well as the main conference in Paris French Coalition Against Malaria members are organising activities in a variety of other cities and provinces across France including Bataclan, Beaubourg, Besançon, Toulouse, Angers, Montpellier, Nantes, Bobigny, Tours, Marseilles, Rennes, Rouen, Lyon, Saint-Étienne, Limoges, Grenoble, Nancy, Poitiers, Humanice, & Brest
1. Act Together to Defeat Malaria
Event: Conference
Date: Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008, 10.30 to 17.00 at the l’Institut Pasteur de Paris
For more information visit http://www.coalitionpaludisme.org/
2. Photographic exhibition by Julian Chraïbi will be introduced in l’Institut Pasteur de Paris on April 22nd
3. Two Photographic exhibition on malaria, its impact and programmes implemented in Cameroon & Burkina Faso.
Date: Wednesday, April 22nd in l’Institut Pasteur de Parison and on April 26th and 27th on the « Village Plan » in
Park of Villette in Paris. To know about it go to http://www.luttercontrelepaludisme.fr/
To view the full programme of all other French coalition members activities around and on World Malaria Day, please click here
1. Title: Malaria: Joining Forces, Synergising Action - Sustainable and Innovative Ways of Ensuring Long-Term Availability of Prevention and Treatment Measures by 2015
Event: Conference
Date: April 21-22, 2008, Bonn, Germany
Organisers:German Foundation for World Population (DSW) and the German Red Cross, both members of the "European Alliance Against Malaria", as well as action medeor, the German partner of "Stop Malaria Now!".
For more information please contact: Antje Mangelsdorf, action medeor, on antje.mangelsdorf@medeor.org
To download the programme, click here
2. On the occasion of World Malaria Day on April 25th Malaria no More Deutschland e. V. and its implementation partner German Red Cross and network partner European Alliance against Malaria are inviting you to Potsdamer Platz to create the biggest human-made bed net. The event will officially be opened at 12am by the German Minister for Development and Cooperation, Honorouble Heidemarie Wieczoreck-Zeul. At 1pm join the public event: join a hand against malaria - be part of the biggest human-made bed net!
Go to http://www.malarianomore.de/
3. "Malaria no More celebrates World Malaria Day"
Malaria no More Deutschland e.V. hosts its official launch celebration, a by-invitation-only event, welcoming its sponsors, donors, members, the media as well as special guests to celebrate our six months anniversary. A fundraising auction will take place. All prizes have been kindly donated!
4. Tribute concert in Potsdam "Music against Malaria"
Young artists and musicians are taking the stage on Saturday, April 19th at 8pm performing a tribute concert against Malaria. Patron for this event is Potsdam's mayor Jann Jakobs. Entrance fee of 6 € will go 100% into anti-malaria projects
GHANA
23rd to 28th April - Trip to Ghana with media award winners
24 April : Field trip Dodowa
25 April : Forum Malaria Scientists and Journalists
26 April : Field Trip old Niono
28 April : Mozambican and Ghanaian journalist info sharing
For more information contact Claudia Manjate c.manjate@malariaconsortium.org
See document under French activities
Charity Concert - Money raised will go towards the Malaria foundation
Date: 26th of April, 7pm at "Monkey's Mallet" in Sakurai,
Japan- ticket sales (¥1500) will help buy mosquito nets to hang in Hospitals in Africa.
For more information go to http://www.ourchart.com/node/388620
Centre for Malariology, Parasitology and Entomology (CMPE) is organizing a press release through Lao National Radio, Lao National TV and English and Lao languges newspapers. The information contains situation of malaria in Lao and in the region, control strategies (using ITN, LLIN, RDT and ACT), achievements and outcomes up to date. The press release will be conducted on 25 and 26 April 2008.
The Lao malaria control programme is organizing bednet impregnation. In order to hightlight an importance and advocating of the malaria control programme and WMD, CMPE will organize a filed visit for the Vice Ministry of Health and senior staff to observe bednet dipping activity in southern province of Laos where malaria incedent is still high. This activity is planning for mid May 2008.
For more information please contact Dr Nouannipha Simmalavong on nounnipha@yahoo.com
- Malaria photos exhibition by Mobilising4Malaria and VOICES from the 21st to 25th April from 8-17.30 each day.
- On the 21st
- Official opening of Fair on 21st April at 18.00
- Journalists prize given (Mobilising4Malaria/VOICERS) at 18.30
- Cocktail by PMI
- Theatre at 19.00 (PSI)
- Blinds Cultural Group (Proserv) at 19.15
- On the 22nd
- Fair opens at 08.30
- 10.00 - Malaria competition - questions and answers (NMCP)
- 13.00 - IRS Demonstration (DSCM)
- 14.00 - Theatre (Red Cross)
- 16.00 - Malaria competition - questions and answers (NMCP)
- 17.00 - Day end
- On the 23rd
- Fair opens at 08.30
- 10.00 - Malaria competition - questions and answers (PNCM)
- 14.30 - Talk on Biomedical Reseach in Mozambique (Mobilising4Malaria/VOICES)
- 16.00 - Malaria competition - questions and answers (PNCM)
- 17.00 - Day end
- On the 24th
- Fair opens at 08.30
- 10.00 - Malaria competition - questions and answers (NMCP)
- 13.00 - IRS Demonstration (DSCM)
- 14.00 - Theatre (Red Cross)
- 16.00 - Malaria competition - questions and answers (NMCP)
- 17.00 - Day end
- On the 25th
- Fair opens at 08.30
- 10.00 - Malaria competition - questions and answers (PNCM)
- 12.00 - Theatre (Ndyoko)
- 14.30 - Meeting on malaria and HIV/AIDS interaction (Advocacy group)
- Blinds Cultural Group (Proserv)
Participants at the Fair will include NMCP, PMI, MC, Proserve, Agrifocus, PSI, WV, Unicef, MDS, Advocacy Group & Ndyoko.
In the the provinces (Nampula, Inhambane and Cabo Delgado) educational activities will take place including theatre, traditional songs and dances, competitions. These activities will be coordinated by Malaria Consortium and the health provinces responsible as well as local partners.
For more information please contact Claudia Manjate, c.manjate@malariaconsortium.org
MALAWI
TOTAL Malawi, one of the biggest oil companies in Malawi recognises the importance of the World Malaria Day. They will therefore taken the following initiative to get involved on the commemoration day:
- printed posters with general Malaria information distributed in all TOTAL service stations.
- TOTAL Malawi staff will go to schools and educate kids about Malaria, conduct some quiz and give out some mosquito nets.
-TOTAL Malawi will mobilise the Malawi community ABOUT Malaria through the Media.
1. PRESS CONFERENCE ON 22ND APRIL 2008 TO HIGHLIGHT THE BURDEN OF MALARIA
2. ONE DAY MALARIA PREVENTION AND CONTROL TRAININIG PROGRAM FOR THE RURAL HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS(PRIMARY HEALTH CENTERS STAFF AND PATENT MEDICINE DEALERS) IN ABIA STATE NIGERIA.ON 25TH APRIL
3.ONE DAY SEMINAR FOR NURSING STUDENTS ON MALARIA ON 26TH APRIL 2008
4.LIVE TELEVISION PROGRAM ON MALRIA. THIS WILL BE AUDIENCE INTERACTIVE PROGRAM
For more information go to http://www.centerpublichealth.org/ or contact cfine@centerpublichealth.org
Description: A national level seminar of technical experts and the policy makers on 25th April will conclude the week long series of events around World Malaria Day. The participation of the Minister and high level officials of the MoH is expected at national, provincial and district levels. The day will also be celebrated in 30 high risk (high burden sharing districts) of the country through the organization of students and Lady Health Workers walks, local seminars, inter school debates, sports events, painting competitions and press and electronic media events.
The series of events has already been initiated from Sindh province in districts of Mirpurkhas and Hyderabad. The doctor community and the elected district government representatives participated in these symposia. The event has been high lighted by the local print and electronic media.
A series of meetings is also scheduled with the NGOs, development partners and the corporate sector organizations for active participation in the World Malaria Day events.
A federal level Committee of the DOMC (MoH) and WHO headed by the Director Malaria Control Dr.Faisal Mansoor, has been set up to organize the week long events of World Malaria Day.
More information will follow.Title: The Ebène Music Festival
Event: Concert on the 25th April
Description: The Ebène Music Festival against malaria was established in Dakar in April 2005. It aims to raise consciousness through means of a powerful and immensely popular media event that cannot be ignored, ensuring that everyone, starting with the political authorities and strategic players, will get involved, getting malaria under control in Africa.
The free concerts target its public awareness message at the masses, and particularly at the young, to achieve widespread communication of the message in a festive and popular setting.
For more information please visit their website at http://www.music-ebene.com/.
SIERRA LEONE
See document under French activities
SWITZERLAND
The Swiss Malaria Group (SMG) will present itself to Swiss media on World Malaria Day, 25th of April 2008. The SMG members are: The Swiss Agency for Development and Co-operation, the Swiss Tropical Institute, Novartis, the Novartis Foundation for Sustainable Development, Mepha, Syngenta, Solidarmed, the Swiss Red Cross, and Medicines for Malaria Venture. A press conference will be organized by the Swiss Tropical Institute (STI).
Title: Stop Children and Mothers dying from Malaria, “Leaders can help”
Event: World Malaria Day Campaign (Awareness)
Date: The event will be launched on 7th March 2008 in Ruvuma Regions and will continue until 24th April 2008 for Seven Weeks in Five districts. There will be an event on the 25th April to mark the climax of the campaign and an event in Songea on Saturday 26th April.
Organizers: ORES Tanzania and COTN (NGOs)
Description: This event has been organized to bring awareness and sensitization to the community role to fight/ roll back malaria. The event will focus on the rural remote areas with swimmers participating in a three week programme from 8th March to 24th April 2008. The Campaign theme will focus on Availability of Treated Mosquito net to the Poor People, Treatment and Malaria Prevention facilities.
For more information please contact: Dr Hermengild Mayunga,
(drmayunga@ores.or.tz) or info@ores.or.tz
1. Title: Uganda Swim for Malaria and WMD
Event: Sponsored swim
Date: Opening ceremony - Friday 4th April, Closing ceremony - Saturday 26th April. Both events to be held at the Kabira Country Club. All sponsored swims will take place during the three week programme through clubs and schools across the country.
Organisers: Malaria Consortium and Equator Swim Club
Description: Swimmers participating in the three week programme from 4th to 26th April 2008 will be encouraged to obtain sponsorship for the distances swam. All swimmers will register with their club and school to participate in the event. Individuals are also encouraged to participate. Swimmers will be covering set marked out distances from around Uganda where malaria is most prevalent. Distances will be plotted on a map of Uganda by the organizers
2. Talk Show & Launch of HBMF documentary : There will be a talk show on UBC from 9.30pm to 10.30pm. The Malaria Consortium documentary on Home Based Management of Fever will be launched. Tune in . Dr James Tibenderana will be the Guest Speaker.
3. Malaria Consortium will, as a stakeholder/partner in malaria control, join the Ministry of Health and other stakeholders to attend and exhibit in Ibanda district (at the Ibanda Town Council) on Friday 25th April 2008.
For more information please contact: Betty Lumu, infomcesa@malariaconsortium.org
4. On World Malaria Day, read about AstraZeneca's partnership with AMREF to help fight malaria, TB and HIV in Uganda, where there is a high burden of all three diseases.
- Title: World Malaria Day in the UK: Mobilising to Save Lives
Description: A Panel of 4 speakers representing businesses, trade unions, and civil society will discuss how they work, can mobilise, and connect with others in the fight against malaria, both in the UK and internationally. Date: 25th April 2008
Time: 10.30 to 12pm with buffet lunch to follow
Location: Invision Suites 1 & 2, Trade Union Congress, Congress House, Great Russell Street, London, WC1B 3LS
Please RSVP to s.pickwick@malariaconsortium.org by Friday 18th April
Organisers: Malaria Consortium, Nigerian Organisation of Women, African Women’s Welfare Association, International Business Leaders Forum and the Trade Union Congress.
To download a copy of the invitation, click here
2. World Malaria Day event in Saltash/Plymouth organised by Rotarians Eliminating Malaria in Tanzania
Type: RAFFLE, QUIZ, AFRICAN GAMES, MUSIC, FOOD & BAR - all profits go to buy mosquito nets
For more information on event please contact Brian Stoyel on brian@stoyel.co.uk
3. Malaria Fundraising event
Location: Dilton Marsh Memorial Hall, Westbury, Wiltshire
Date: Friday 18 April 2008.
Description: Money raised will buy mosquito nets and fund health educators in the Gunjur area of The Gambia through the Starfish Malaria Project - a project under the umbrella of the Marlborough Brandt Group.
The evening consists of live entertainment, an auction and raffle, quiz. Admission by ticket only.
Contact: Enquiries to Hilary Fairfield on 01373 823490.
1. Title: Save a Life NOW! Prevent Malaria.
Event: Campaign/Fundraising
Date: This campaign was launched on the 15th March 2008 and will continue until August, 2008 when a Malaria Rapid Diagnostic Testing Center will be launched in Lusaka, Zambia.
Description: The campaign theme focuses on availability of Rapid Diagnostic Testing (RDT's) to the people in rural Zambia, treatment and malaria prevention.
Organiser: Health Village International is an initiative of The Network of Asylees and Advocates Against Terror & Torture a non profit organization with a Certificate of Accounts Status in Good standing with Texas Comptroller of Public's. USA. Accounts file number: 0800203085.
For information please contact: Oliver Mupila .President/CEO
Health Village International, healthvillageinternational@yahoo.com
2. Title: RBM Zambezi Expedition
Event: Two months voyage on the Zambezi River to showcase successes and highlight challenges associated with the fight against malaria across the six countries of the Trans-Zambezi region.
Description : It will help to voice each country's unique story of struggle and success while rallying government and public support for a common Zambezi-wide malaria control strategy that is currently in the making. By exposing the difficulties of delivering prevention and treatment tools in Angola, Namibia, Botswana, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Mozambique, the RBM Zambezi Expedition will demonstrate that only a coordinated cross-border action can force the disease to recoil - echoing well the 2008 global World Malaria Day theme - Malaria - a disease without borders.
Organisers: Roll Back Malaria
Website: http://www.zambezi-expedition.org/index.html
3. The Roll Back Malaria (RBM) Partnership is organizing a two-day event in Livingstone, Zambia on 24 and 25 April 2008, in collaboration with the Zambian authorities and the Southern African Development Community (Angola, Botswana, Mozambique, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe) and in the company of Ministers of Health, RBM Ambassadors and Board members, private sector, multilateral, nongovernmental and media partners. This World Malaria Day commemoration will seize the opportunity to profile the RBM Zambezi Expedition, which will pass through Livingstone on the same dates.
See website above for more details
Title: Black Faces Against Malaria for MAD
Event: One off Facebook event (Global)
Date: April 25th 2008
Organiser:One Million Faces Against Malaria Facebook group organised by Lance Laifer
Description: Facebook users requested to post a black profile picture on the 25th April. Please note you have to have a registered Facebook account and be part of the One Million Faces Against Malaria group in order to access details of this event and participate.
Title: One by One count to one million faces against malaria
Event: Ongoing Facebook event (Global)
Date: Current
Organiser:One Million Faces Against Malaria Facebook group organised by Lance Laifer
Description: We are counting to 1,000,000 faces against malaria on facebook - can do it any time, any where! Please note you have to have a registered Facebook account and be part of the One Million Faces Against Malaria group in order to access details this activity and participate.
Title: Save My Soul - Music to Prevent Malaria
Event: World Malaria Day Charity Auction
Date: Current (ends April 25th)
Organiser: SonicWave Media
Description: Ebay Auction of Save My Soul - Music to Prevent Malaria CD for World Malaria day, with 100% of the proceeds going to Malaria No More.
Title: MalariaEngage
Event: Online social networking approach to funding health research in Africa
Date: 20th April launch
Organiser: Canada's McLaughlin-Rotman Centre for Global Health
Description: A pioneering online social networking approach to funding health research in Africa. Debuted April 20 to offer individuals a meaningful way to mark World Malaria Day (Friday, April 25), its founders hope http://www.malariaengage.org/ will do for African research what YouTube did for sharing videos and what eBay did for trading things - open it up in a creative and engaging way to the vast global community through the World Wide Web.
At MalariaEngage.org, people can enlist directly in the anti-malaria battle by contributing $10 or more to an initial choice of seven highly varied projects involving selected scientists in Tanzania. Over time, newprojects across developing countries will replace those that reach their funding goal (the original seven have objectives ranging from $10,000 to $50,000). The site features a discussion area where supporters can interact with researchers and each other, obtain news and photos of both funded and proposed projects, a running tally of money raised, and stories from the front lines in the war against the scourge of malaria.
Programmes on Community Channel
They are broadcasting 3 programmes about malaria on 25 April:
- Malaria: Killer Number One
This film looks at the difficulty of treating malaria in Ethiopia. Ethiopia faces a unique challenge in that it is has the perfect conditions for Malaria epidemics. It has large wet areas and distinct seasons which make it hard for people to build up immunity. The strains of malaria are also growing resistant to the drugs that are available and affordable in Ethiopia. The better drugs are too expensive. Apart from distributing mosquito nets and drugs there is still a need for more money and the political will to tackle this urgent problem. On the Channel on 25 April @ 7.30pm - Two Malaria Short Films
Two short films by Comic Relief about malaria will also be broadcast. Death in an Ambulance is on the Channel on 25 April @ 7.20pm and 7.55pm. Child by Child is on the Channel on 25 April @ 7.25pm and 8.55pm
World Malaria Day and UNITAID - UNITAID is an international drug facility that was established in 2006 to provide new sources of funding to fight HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis. It is based on innovative financing mechanisms, like the solidarity contribution on air tickets, together with multi-year budgetary contributions. UNITAID's mission is to provide long-term, sustainable and predictable funding to increase access to treatments and to reduce prices of quality drugs and diagnostics to low- and middle-income countries.
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