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Leah Scandurra, JHU.CCP, M&E Officer:

"We analyzed the data and determined that there was a general downward trend in the number of claims and amount paid out over the past several years, since the company had begun Malaria Safe."

Claudia Vondrasek, JHU.CCP, Voices Project Director:

"Data are helpful in making the case to the private sector that investing in malaria control is good for business, while further developing a business norm of investing in malaria among UAM private and government partners."

Matthew Lynch, JHU.CCP, Director, Global Program on Malaria:

"We coined a term in those early years – technical advocacy – basically breaking down bottlenecks to the successful delivery of malaria control interventions."

Kathryn Bertram, JHU.CCP, Program Officer:

"In Voices, we put the country teams through an exercise to identify the most promising private sector champions in the country and to develop a plan to recruit them to Malaria Safe."

Anna McCartney-Melstad, JHU.CCP, Senior Program Officer:

"It was easy to convince the companies to join once their realized the impact of malaria on their staff and business. Malaria Safe worked."

David Holtgrave, JHU SPH Chair of the Department of Health, Behavior and Society:

"Advocacy is an important lever to making improvements in health – builds political will, mobilizes resources, and unlocks partnership opportunities that will help transform the current state of health."

Susan Krenn, JHU Center for Communication Programs, Director:

"Voices has provided us with tools, expertise, and a very clear sense of what needs to be done."

On January 14, 2014

we marked the end of exciting seven years with Voices for a Malaria Free Future project.

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Blog post January 14, 2014

Voices for a Malaria Free Future Celebrates End of the Project

January 14, 2014

Nearly 100 malaria prevention advocates gathered for the Voices for a Malaria Free Future End of Project Celebration, which was held at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health on January 14. View the full event agenda and learn more about the Voices for a Malaria Free Future successes from our case studies.
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Blog post August 23, 2013

Uganda MPs advocate for better targeted malaria reduction efforts during UAM photo exhibition

With photographs of Ugandans stricken with malaria as a backdrop, a Uganda MP speaking on behalf of the Parliamentary Forum on Malaria called for the establishment of a "Uganda Malaria Commission," during an event on August 13 in the Parliament foyer. Modeled after the Uganda AIDS Commission, the Malaria Commission, if established, would receive its own vote in Parliament and its own budgetary line in upcoming budget negotiations, according to Forum Chairperson Hon. Moses Balyeku, MP.
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Blog post July 24, 2013

Zambia among Countries on Course to Eliminating Malaria

By XAVIER MANCHISHI

Zambia together with Rwanda and Zanzibar are said to be countries sustaining malaria control with the hope of moving towards the elimination of the disease that is said to kill one child in Africa every 60 seconds.

UAM programme manager for South Africa Ann McCartney-Melstad, however, said there was need for more political will among all African countries if the continent was to achieve total elimination. “We need political leaders across Africa to unite against malaria so that all African countries can eventually achieve elimination. Malaria is a preventable and treatable disease,” she said. She observed that Zambia had made several interventions which had drastically reduced the prevalence rate, especially along the line of rail, with Lusaka and Copperbelt provinces leading in the number of households using insecticide treated mosquito nets. Ms McCartney-Melstad was speaking during the fight against malaria UAM/Council for Southern Africa Football Associations (COSAFA)/Stanbic media workshop held at Moba Hotel in Kitwe on the sidelines of the regional soccer championship.
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Blog post June 24, 2013

COSAFA Partners With United Against Malaria At Cosafa Cup Zambia 2013

Malaria kills an estimated 1.2-million people every year, the large majority the poor and vulnerable, primarily young children and pregnant women in Africa who are more likely to be exposed to infection due to lower immunity levels and have the most limited access to malaria prevention, treatment, and control measures.
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The Voices project has come to an end. This website is an archive--it is no longer being updated.

Voices sought to expand national movements of powerful private and public sector leaders in Ghana, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, and other African countries to mobilize political and popular support for malaria control.

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