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Rotary-led partners for a Malaria-Free Zambia awarded US$6 million to reduce burden of malaria in heavily affected districts A community health worker (left) tests a rural resident (right) for malaria in Mpongwe District in the Copperbelt Province (adjacent to Central Province), Zambia, in order to be able to treat the disease and prevent transmission in 2021. Courtesy of Malaria Partners Zambia
Updated 3/10/2021 9:20 AM To help end a leading cause of illness and death in the southern African country of Zambia, a Rotary club-led initiative aims to save and improve lives by empowering community health workers to test, diagnose and treat malaria. ....
To help end a leading cause of illness and death in the southern African country of Zambia, a Rotary (www.Rotary.org) club-led initiative aims to save and improve lives by empowering community health workers to test, diagnose and treat malaria. Malaria, a preventable disease caused by a parasite spread through the bites of infected mosquitoes, disproportionately affects children under the age of five and pregnant women in rural populations. To help end malaria in Zambia, The Rotary Foundation, World Vision USA and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will each contribute $2 million for the Rotary-led Partners for a Malaria-Free Zambia program. This $6 million program will add 2,500 community health workers to the national health system in Zambia, allowing for effective malaria diagnosis and treatment for more than 1.3 million people in ten of the most highly affected districts in Central and Muchinga provinces. ....
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