On Wednesday 12 August we're celebrating International Youth Day. A day to stand up and recognise the impact malaria has on young people across our continent.
Whilst the world grapples with COVID-19, malaria continues to put half the world at risk, with more than 400,000 people dying from malaria every year - two thirds of them are children under five. Within a generation we can end malaria for good, but only with action from young people can we achieve a zero malaria world.
INTRODUCING SOME OF OUR ZERO MALARIA CHAMPIONS
DOWNLOAD VIDEOS AND SOCIAL IMAGES TO DEMAND ZERO MALARIA ON INTERNATIONAL YOUTH DAY
SOCIAL MEDIA POSTS
Share these posts on your social media channels so let everyone know the power of youth in the fight for a zero malaria world:
The youth across the world are uniting to demand #ZeroMalaria โ๐ฟโ๐พโ๐ฝ. It's not fair that children's lives are still being cut short by this treatable and preventable disease. By standing together, we can all play a part to #EndMalaria #InternationalYouthDay
Every child has the right to dream big๐ง๐ฟ๐ง๐พ๐ง๐ฝ๐ง๐ผ, yet thousands of school days are lost across our continent every day. We're being held back from our potential. It's time to invest in our futures and demand a #ZeroMalaria Africaโ๐ฟโ๐พโ๐ผ. #InternationalYouthDay #ZeroMalariaStartsWithMe
By standing together on #InternationalYouthDay we can #EndMalaria for good๐ฆ. We can unite and demand a bright and healthy future for everyone๐๐ฟ๐๐พ๐๐ฝ๐๐ผ. We declare #ZeroMalariaStartsWithMe
Today we have a better chance of beating malaria than ever before, but only if young people stand up and have their voice heard๐ข. If we #EndMalaria we can build stronger health systems and fight diseases like Covid-19 too๐ฉ๐ฟโโ๏ธ๐ฉ๐พโโ๏ธ๐ฉ๐ฝโโ๏ธ๐ฉ๐ผโโ๏ธ๐ฉบ. #InternationalYouthDay #ZeroMalaria
FOLLOW ZERO MALARIA ON SOCIAL MEDIA
IN CONVERSATION WITH SERIES...
In this new series we have paired up leaders who have experience in the malaria battle with the youth champions and leaders of tomorrow - advocates, doctors and scientists - young people who are ready to take the baton and lead the fight to eliminate malaria.
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#INTERNATIONALYOUTHDAY
#ZEROMALARIA
#ZEROMALARIASTARTSWITHME
#ENDMALARIA
NOTHING BUT NETS' CHAMPIONS
Nothing But Nets' grassroots advocacy champions are leaders in the fight to end malaria. Champions meet with Members of Congress, write letters to the editors, and increase awareness on the importance of U.S. leadership in global health programs including the US Presidentโs Malaria Initiative and the Global Fund.
Through their year round efforts, our champions lead meetings with U.S. Congress in Washington D.C. and locally for World Malaria Day and World Mosquito Day. To set our champions up for success, our champions participate in bi-weekly trainings where they hear from experts for the latest updates on policy and program implementation impacting malaria eradication efforts.
YOUTH LEADERS FOR HEALTH
It is a platform that connects 25 Youth Leaders passionate about health and healthcare systems to advocate for policy change at key national, regional and global advocacy moments.
In this time of COVID-19 Youth Leaders for Health (YL4H) have enabled a popular platform dubbed #TheBeatContinues to passionately communicate their desire to end malaria and build strong public health systems that can take on any challenge including COVID-19.
On International Youth day, through a series of activities, YL4H will showcase youth as effective drivers of change and call upon African and world leaders to invest in youth and youth participation.
Watch Youth Leaders for Health video by Collective Beats with the song "Win This Way"
Youth Leaders for Health is a joint program by Health Promotion Tanzania-HDT, Hope for Future Generation- Ghana, CISMAT- Sierra Leone, WACI Health and RESULTS UK.
ARE YOU PASSIONATE ABOUT THE NEXT GENERATION TAKING ON THE MALARIA FIGHT?
If you or your organisation would like to be a part of the new RBM Partnership to End Malaria Youth Workstream then please get in touch.