GEF project · Iganga District
GEF project: Iganga District community dialogue
The Malaria Youth team conducted a district engagement and community dialogue in Iganga District to review findings from the GEF Community Scorecard at Nakavule Hospital.
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GEF project · Bukedea District
GEF project: Bukedea District engagement and community dialogues
District engagement, a facility assessment at Nalugai Health Centre III and community dialogues in Kongunga Town Council, July to September 2025.
Advocacy · National budget
Stakeholders want malaria funding made compulsory in national budget; is it feasible?
Key health sector stakeholders are pushing for an amendment to the Public Finance Management Act (PFMA) to make malaria a mandatory benchmark in approving national budgets.
Opinion · Malaria prevention
Why dual-AI nets could be Uganda’s game changer in ending malaria
Why nets with two insecticides matter for mosquitoes that resist pyrethroids, and how young people help families use them every night.
News · World Health Organization
WHO recommends spatial emanators for malaria vector control and prequalifies first two products
A new class of intervention for malaria vector control: spatial emanators release active ingredients into the air to keep mosquitoes away and stop them biting.
Youth · Gender equality
Malaria Ends With Us: Africa’s Youth Ignite a Gender-Inclusive Health Revolution
Africa is the world’s youngest continent. Across it, national Malaria Youth Corps are tackling the gender barriers that keep girls and women from malaria care.
News · Malaria vaccine
Uganda launches world’s biggest malaria vaccine rollout
Over 2.2 million doses arrive in Kampala, and free vaccination for infants starts in April in Uganda’s 105 most-affected districts.
Press release · Malaria vaccine
Minister of Health receives and flags off Malaria vaccines to 105 districts
2.278 million doses leave the National Medical Stores for 105 districts, as the four-dose vaccine joins Uganda’s routine immunisation schedule.
Interview · Research
Malaria Know More: Dr Joshua Tan on a novel class of anti-malaria antibodies
An NIH researcher explains new antibodies that bind a hidden part of the malaria parasite, and why we still need more tools to end malaria.
News · Our launch
ALMA congratulates Africa’s expanding network of youth champions fighting malaria, with Uganda as the newest member
Uganda joins Cameroon, Kenya, Zambia, Eswatini and the DR Congo in establishing a national Malaria Youth Corps.
Partners · Private sector
Celebrating Malaria Champions and Entrepreneurs
Nine companies and three champions, including Kenneth Mugisha of Malaria Free Uganda, honoured for US$6 million raised to fight malaria.
Our work · Karamoja
Involving Uganda malaria youth champions in seasonal malaria chemoprevention in Karamoja region
Five youth champions joined the August 2023 campaign in Moroto, where 255,000 children received preventive malaria medicine.
Our work · Report
The Youth-Reinforced Fight Against Malaria in the Most Vulnerable Communities in Uganda
Our full report from Moroto: what MYCU members did, saw and learned as about 255,000 children received seasonal malaria chemoprevention.
News · Zero Malaria Starts with Me
Africa Celebrates Five Years of Zero Malaria Starts with Me
The pan-African movement, now in 27 countries, marks five years in Dakar with a focus on young people leading the fight against malaria.
Advocacy · Parliament
Uganda MPs Move to End Malaria
WHO and the Ministry of Health hold a malaria dialogue with the Uganda Parliamentary Forum on Malaria: a malaria-free constituency is our responsibility.
Community health · Ntungamo
Village Health Teams in Uganda’s Ntungamo District lead the fight against Malaria
Trained village health workers test, treat and refer children close to home, and malaria cases in Ntungamo have halved in three months.
Partners · Private sector
Ecobank launches Zero Malaria Business Leadership Initiative as it joins Malaria Free Uganda
Ecobank Uganda joins the Malaria-Free Uganda board with a USD 120,000 contribution, bringing the private sector into the fight against malaria.
Statement · Malaria Free Uganda
ALMA statement on the launch of the Malaria Free Uganda initiative
A malaria-free Uganda is a healthy, resilient and prosperous Uganda. ALMA congratulates Uganda on a new platform uniting government, business and civil society.
Health systems · COVID-19
Spotlight on the malaria response during the COVID-19 pandemic
Malaria deaths rose by more than half in early 2020. How partners kept testing, treatment and nets reaching families through the lockdown.
Progress · 2000 to 2019
How significant investments helped turn the tide against malaria
From 2000 to 2019, malaria incidence in Uganda fell by 46 percent and deaths by 83 percent. How nets, testing and treatment reached families.
Partners · UK aid
Supporting the reduction in malaria in 26 high burden districts
Five years of UK support, worth 206 billion shillings, to protect women and children from malaria in Uganda’s highest-burden districts.
Community health · Kaberamaido
Addressing malaria, pneumonia and diarrhea among children
Once ranked near the bottom, Kaberamaido now has medicines to spare, as retrained Village Health Teams bring malaria incidence down from 43 to 13 per cent.
Community health · SURMa
Community health workers lead fight against malaria
Village Health Teams bring malaria prevention, testing and treatment to communities in 25 of Uganda’s most affected districts.