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It’s time to say goodbye to 2020, but before we do…

Hi ,

As we reach the end of a challenging year we wanted to say thank you to everyone who has donated, shared our campaigns or been an all-round supporter of the malaria fight in 2020.

Together we’ve been working to avoid undoing 20 years of progress. Under the worst of circumstances, 90% of planned malaria programmes went ahead this year, with 200 million mosquito repellent nets distributed and 20 million children protected with anti-malarial drugs - saving hundreds of thousands of lives as a result.

Through all of our determined campaigning and advocacy work, we helped keep malaria on the political agenda across the globe. Here are some of our highlights

This year we visited Ghana and the pilot of the world’s first malaria vaccine developed by our partners GSK. The vaccine acts against the deadliest of malaria parasites, plasmodium falciparum, and has already shown to reduce malaria cases among young children. Earlier this month the Oxford team of scientists behind a Covid-19 vaccine announced another malaria Vaccine, which is entering its final stages of development. A cheap and effective vaccine will help millions of children live malaria-free lives.

To make sure malaria remains at the top of the global agenda 2020 saw our campaigns go further around the globe than ever before. In April we launched the new, Zero Malaria campaign, featuring the world’s fastest marathon runner, Eliud Kipchoge and South Africa’s rugby captain, Siya Kolisi. They helped us see the Bigger Picture as we all strove to fight malaria and Covid-19 together.

Zero Malaria’s Mosquito Clap Challenge trended on Twitter in Kenya and Nigeria and was shown at a UN General Assembly (UNGA) side event - prompting the world from taking its eyes off the prize of reaching zero malaria.

Earlier this month, David Beckham spoke to us from the future in the latest Malaria Must Die campaign. Speaking from a world where malaria has ended once and for all. He explained that we can all look forward to a safer world if world leaders maintain their determination to invest in innovative tools to end malaria.

The UK Government have outlined global health security as one of their main priorities for aid spending going forwards and right now they are making key budget decisions We made it our mission to ensure they heard the powerful case for continuing to invest in the malaria fight.

Watch how we made A World Without Malaria…

You gave generously in response to our special ambassador Jo Yirrell’s call to make sure malaria was not forgotten during the Covid-19 crisis, as she delivered our first ever BBC Radio 4 Appeal this April. Thanks to your support and a “triple match” from our longstanding partner Fever-Tree, over £60,000 was raised.

Our work continues. Since 2000 global efforts against malaria have helped save more than 7 million lives and reduced deaths by 60%. But this year’s World Malaria Report has shown progress towards beating malaria has stalled - with your continued support in 2021 we can help scale up efforts towards ending the world’s oldest and deadliest disease.

Thank you,

The Malaria No More UK Team