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Important News |
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Roll Back Malaria announces
Africa Malaria Day 2004.
The Red Cross
is looking at doing as many as 7 country campaigns in 2004.
Click here for more information.
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Overview |
RAM calls for:
- Full coverage of all children under 5 with
ITNs as soon as possible.
- Continuous and adequate supply of
appropriate anti-malaria medicines for both prevention and
treatment.
- Funding and logistic support that would
lower the price and raise the affordability of ITNs and medicines
to a state of easy and universal access, wherever needed.
These actions will save the lives of over a
million children per year. Reduction of malaria dramatically
increases the ability of the healthcare systems in Africa to deal
with other diseases. These interventions create conditions for
economic prosperity in areas currently debilitated by malaria. They
set the stage for the rapid delivery of vaccines for other diseases,
including eventual vaccines for malaria. In short, these
interventions turn the tide on disease, on poverty, on despair and
hopelessness. |
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What is RAM? |
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RAM is a voluntary organization of Rotary Clubs and Districts to
work on malaria control. RAM is NOT Rotary International. Rotary
Clubs and Districts independently select causes they work on.
Rotary International's focus cause is POLIO. Rotary International
will not review another health effort until POLIO is eradicated.
Nevertheless, the Rotary International Foundation generously
provides matching grants and other support to RAM efforts along with
other efforts by individual clubs and districts. |
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How do we Plan to Achieve Worldwide Control of Malaria? |
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Making nets, insecticides and medicines
available;
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Making education available on causes, symptoms,
treatments, and preventions;
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Connect people with a focus on linking potential
donors to projects.
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Encourage discussions on malaria control
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Why Malaria? |
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Malaria is relatively easy and inexpensively preventable and
treatable. Malaria control can have a dramatic impact on a economic
development.
ITNs (nets) alone
will save 250,000 lives a year from malaria. It is estimated that
approximately 700,000 to 1,000,000 other lives each year would be
saved from other diseases from just the ITNs. If IPT (Intermittent
Preventative Treatment) was added another 250,000 lives a year would
be saved from malaria and who knows how many from other diseases.
IPT would cost roughly 7 cents per year per person. This figure
comes up to about 1 million US dollars per year.
That is over a
million lives saved each year by equipping African countries with
netting to sleep under for a remarkably low cost.
The
battle against Malaria requires a global effort. Rotarians Against
Malaria is focused on implementation and provides the means to have
the largest impact for the dollars expended. |
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What Will Malaria Control do? |
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Save 400,000 lives per year
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Every 10% reduction in Malaria results in a 0.3%
improvement in Gross Domestic Product.
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How do I View Files on the RAM Website? |
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Much of the content
provided on this webpage is available in a format that might not be
viewable on your computer.
Adobe
To download a program to view .pdf files, click
here.
Word
To download a program to view .doc files, click
here. |
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Where can I Find More Information on Rotary
Grants? |
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New matching grant information, along
with the forms, are now available to download and view
here. |
