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Tuesday, November 25, 2025

DR Congo: From Training to Action - New Tools for Community Health Relays To Fight Child Mortality in Kasai

This article highlights how the Rotary Healthy Communities Challenge (RHCC), implemented by World Vision in partnership with PATH and Rotary, is strengthening community health in Kasaï Province, DRC. By training and equipping community health relays with skills, handwashing kits, and bicycles, the project aims to reduce child mortality caused by malaria, acute respiratory infections, and diarrhoeal diseases. Through improved access to primary health care and a reinforced network of community health sites, the initiative seeks to protect more than 221,000 children under five in some of the most vulnerable and hard-to-reach areas.

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Women leading charge to end malaria

World Vision's Indoor Residual Spraying (IRS) programme is changing lives in Malawi.

World Vision Uganda empowering communities to fight malaria in Bugiri

Delilah survives malaria thanks to a community health worker

Children under five are one of the most vulnerable groups affected by malaria, and this was the case for three-year-old Delilah, who would have lost her...

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Bringing health care closer to the people–How community health workers are proving to be the key to eliminating malaria.

By Tigana Chileshe, Communications manager According to the World Health Organization (WHO), Zambia has a doctor-patient ratio of one doctor for every 12...

World Vision wages war on malaria in Malawi

Malaria is an endemic problem in Malawi, claiming children's lives and overburdening hospitals and health workers. With support from The Global Fund and...

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Meet the women daring to end malaria in Malawi

The “man’s world” that James Brown wrote about some 50 decades ago, continues to crumble before our eyes as many impeccable women continue to break glass...

Halima and Anifa return to school as malaria cases fall

Halima and Anifa thrive in school as malaria cases fall

In 2020 alone, Malawi recorded about seven million malaria cases, which claimed 2,500 lives. Halima and Anifa's experiences with malaria as an endemic...

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Children, Global Fund laud World Vision’s IRS campaign

World Vision's Malawi office has just completed a round of IRS in 516,525 houses in the three districts. This campaign is part of an on-going effort...

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Global Fund country team lauds progress in malaria fight

Statistics from Nkhata Bay District Hospital indicate that malaria incidences fell from 548 cases in 2020 to 173 cases per 1,000 people in 2021. In...

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World Vision launches 2021 campaign to fight malaria in Malawi

World Vision, on Monday, launched the 2021 Indoor Residual Spraying (IRS) campaign in Malawi, with an appeal to all communities to embrace the intervention...

Melise at the hospital where her baby is being treated for malaria.

Malawi: Fighting malaria in the midst of COVID-19

Among Malawians, Balaka is a storied town on a hill. It is a district that has kept on giving - music that has withstood seasons and inspired generations...

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Malawi President commends World Vision for championing effective interventions

Malawi President, Dr. Lazarus Chakwera has commended World Vision for championing youth-centred mindset change and other impactful interventions in the...

How Mosquito insecticide spray became an act of justice for Prince’s life

Mosquito insecticide spray proves life-saving for Loyce's children

Loyce Samu, 38, from Group Village Headman Lulanga, Traditional Authority Lulanga in Mangochi, has bitter memories of malaria attacks on her children...

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Empowering communities to eliminate malaria

By Irene Sinoya, World Vision Communications Specialist, Kenya When we arrived at Nangila’s rural home in Kenya’s Kakamega County, we found her playing...

Steven in Zambia no longer suffers from malaria now he has a mosquito net.

What is malaria? Facts, symptoms, and what World Vision is doing

Nearly half of the world’s population — more than 3 billion people — is at risk of contracting malaria. Globally, malaria mortality rates have dropped by...

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Millions safe from malaria thanks to indoor residual spray project

Nearly 3 million people from Mangochi, Balaka and Nkhata Bay are safe from malaria. This follows a successful Indoor Residual Spray (IRS) project by World...

LLIN Distribution Campaign in CAR

World Vision collaborates with Health Ministry & national partners to distribute 917,000 mosquito nets towards malaria fight in CAR

In the Central African Republic (CAR), malaria is a leading cause of child morbidity and mortality.To respond to the challenge, the Ministry of Health and...

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Reducing malaria incidence in Central African Republic

Project name: Kindango Kobela Ti De (Fighting Malaria) - Global fund Malaria Donor: Global Fund Budget: USD $27,097,646 Sector/Project model: Health...

ADECOS the hope for those without access to basic health services

Malaria continues to be the leading cause of infant mortality in Angola. Between January and August 2018, there were over 8,000 malaria-related deaths...

Mothers in South Sudan brace for malaria and other diseases as rainy season starts

“Malaria is a leading cause of death in South Sudan,” clinical officer Salses Edward was very emphatic as he talked about the disease plaguing the country...

Malaria remains one of the leading causes of deaths in South Sudan

By Lisi Emmanuel Alex, Communications Officer This may sound strange to countries that do not longer have to treat their citizens with malaria but in South...

The Rapid Access Expansion Programme in Niger

The Rapid Access Expansion Program (RAcE) is a health project implemented by World Vision Niger in partnership with WHO and Government. The program’s main...

The Adecos Bring Hope to Malaria Prone Villages

Adecos the agents who promote the community sanitation development play an important role in the identification and treatment of malaria simple cases at...

Burundi's malaria crisis

8 facts about Burundi's malaria epidemic

In 2017 alone, 6.4 million cases of malaria have been recorded in Burundi. Nearly twice as many cases have been reported than the country's entire...

In Angola, it takes a community to take on the fight against malaria

Visiting Rangel in Luanda, Angola shifts one’s attention from the city’s warmth to the uncomfortable reality that malaria and other diseases lurk to take...