Seattle Rotary has “deeply touched our hearts”

Posted by Jim Moore, Rotary Member On Sunday night we held a working dinner with representatives from nine Rotary Clubs.  Besides traditional Rotary fellowship, the main purpose of the dinner was to begin to specify the next steps that should be taken in implementing the Second Century Malaria Control and Eradication Project.  Though the hour [...]

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Seattle commemorates World Malaria Day 2010

Posted by Kent Campbell, PATH Malaria Control Program Director We’ve just concluded an extraordinary morning here at the PATH office in Seattle. The area’s best and brightest in the global malaria community gathered at PATH headquarters in Seattle today to commemorate the third annual World Malaria Day and the lineup was impressive: Seattle BioMed, Rotary, [...]

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Seattle malaria community gathers at PATH

We had a packed house as the malaria community gathered at PATH headquarters in Seattle to commemorate World Malaria Day today!  Photos, video, and a full write-up to follow shortly. Stay tuned!

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Rotarians commemorate malaria day with action, increased committment

Posted by John Adams, Rotary Member Seattle Rotary #4 was active with the Rotary Malaria Control Project on World Malaria Day today, with a team on the ground in Zambia.  Jim Moore, Roy Mann and John Adams all attended several events related to malaria eradication.  We joined with members of the Seattle PATH team in [...]

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Just one person can help save a life

Posted by Catherine Seneviratne, MACEPA Project Administrator Helping out with the 2010 Malawi Malaria Indicator Survey was the first time I had really ever participated in fieldwork.  I have worked in Zambia and Ethiopia before, but I wasn’t sure what to expect from the trip—and what stuck with me wasn’t what I expected.  I’ve heard [...]

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Using simple tools to improve malaria diagnosis

Published by Todd Jennings, MACEPA Communications Officer For many Zambians the nearest health facility might be 10, 20 or even 50 miles away.  So what do you do when your daughter is huddled on her mat, sweating from fever then shaking from chills?  You don’t have money for transport and your bicycle isn’t much good after days [...]

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One house at a time: collecting malaria data in Malawi

Posted by Chris Lungu, MACEPA Monitoring and Evaluation Officer The rainy season is wrapping up and it just took me more than two days to drive the 700 kilometers back to Zambia’s capital from Lilongwe, Malawi, where I was helping to conduct the country’s first national malaria indicator survey (MIS).  Driving through Malawi is very [...]

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Blogging together to count out malaria

Posted by Cristina Herdman and Laura Newman, MACEPA Communication Officers Welcome to our blog! It’s been almost one year since we were in Lusaka to commemorate World Malaria Day 2009, and countries have made amazing progress in the fight against the disease since then. World Malaria Day is an opportunity for us to once again [...]

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