Malaria Success Stories

Across Africa, individual families, mothers, children and workers are winning the fight against malaria.  As funding continues to be scaled up, more and more preventative tools and treatments are reaching those who need them. 

As a result, countless inspiring stories are being written across the African continent where there used to be stories of heartbreak. 

The statistical success has been evident across Africa, places like Zanzibar, Ethiopia, Eritrea and others have demonstrated remarkable results.  But what can be lost in the recitation of statistical success is the very real difference these interventions are making in the lives of individual people. 

Children are surviving to see their fifth birthday and spending more time as school instead of being sick.  Family members do not have to spend as much time caring for the sick and workers can spend more time producing at their respective professions because they are not spending multiple days per year fighting malaria. 

These stories serve as a reminder to the rest of the world that our funding levels must continue and increase until all of Africa becomes a malaria success story, the greatest success story of all, an end to malaria deaths. 

Success Story #43 Selam, is an Eritrean girl, who at the age of 7, walked to the border of Ethiopia in hopes of finding family members who might be in a refugee camp there. More...

Success Story #47 Project Muso believes that lasting change will occur when community members fuel the changes in care, and are supported by partnerships with existing health systems and structures. More...

Success Story #76 Charles Ssali shares a lot in common with most of the other children his age in Africa. He loves football (soccer to those of us in the United States) attends Uganda's equivalent of sixth grade and spends time running, doing school work and with his family. More...

Success Story #92 During the summer of 2008, Elise Lang worked at a local elementary school in Tanzania teaching 2nd graders English and Science. Everyday, she walked along dirt roads, past orange and banana trees, around ditches filled with rain water and half burned piles of trash. More...