Dear John,

Today is World Malaria Day. Malaria is a preventable and treatable disease, yet it continues to claim the lives of hundreds of thousands of people each year.

We must work together to stop health being denied.

This is why it's so important to draw people together within and across communities. We're working with health professionals in Somaliland to diagnose and treat malaria, as well as supporting activists in Myanmar who successfully advocated for free treatment for malaria patients.

Marginalised communities are disproportionately impacted by infectious diseases like malaria. This means that working with people living in so-called 'hard-to-reach' communities is essential if we want to eradicate malaria.

In our last annual report, our teams calculated that in Vietnam almost 70,000 people from mobile and migrant populations were tested for malaria in remote regions.

Only as a global community, working in solidarity, can we ensure that people living in malaria-endemic areas have access to the tools and resources they need to prevent and treat malaria.

In solidarity,

Siaffa Bunduka
Supporter Engagement Manager