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World Malaria Day: Advancing Equity, Building Resilience, Ending Malaria

April 22, 2022 | < 1 Minute Read
Malaria | Health Supply Chains | Health

On World Malaria Day, we join the global community call for keeping malaria high on the global health agenda to advance its vision of a world without malaria.

Chemonics has been working to achieve malaria control and elimination by harnessing innovative and proven approaches that help prevent, detect, and treat malaria infections, and prevent malaria-related deaths around the globe. Click below for an interactive World Malaria Day experience with some highlights of our work to “Advance Equity. Build Resilience. End Malaria.”

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