Malaria stories from the field

Receiving lifesaving interventions at a time of need

Justina and Kelvin’s story

Treating and preventing malaria in the Amazon

Menesolita’s story
Raquel da Silva holding her baby in Brazil - Photo: Rory Challands

The burden of relapsing P. vivax malaria on families

Raquel's story
Akullo Conny with her daughter speaking with doctors in Uganda - Photo: Emmanuel Museruka/MMV

Buying time to save a life with artesunate rectal capsules

Akullo and Aboli's story
Paediatric nurse Mohammed Sani Muftaw in Ghana - Photo: John Passah/ NMCP Ghana

Protecting children from malaria despite COVID-19

Mohammed's story
Nurse Eileen Buxton in Ghana - Photo: Eileen Buxton

Pregnant with malaria

Eileen's story
Dr Eric in a clinic in the heart in Côte d'Ivoire

Treating uncomplicated malaria in adults and children

Dr Eric's story
Chola, a community facilitator in Zambia - Photo: Toby Madden/Transaid

Rising to the dual challenge of malaria and COVID-19 in rural Zambia

Chola's story
Elyne Kaingu holding her kid in Kenya - Photo: Geoffrey Kamadi/ MMV

IPTp protects pregnant women from malaria - Elyne's story

Elyne's story

Drocas distributes free pills that protect children from malaria

Drocas's story
Karotumay holds her two-year-old son and the card that shows he has just received an antimalarial through Mali’s SMC campaign - Photo: Kathryn Malhotra for PMI Impact Malaria

Bedy’s older sister and brothers received SMC to prevent malaria

Karotumay and Bedy's story
Healthcare workers visiting a family in Congo - Photo: Diaka T Jules/ Alain Mugoto, CARAMAL project

“I really appreciate the efficiency with which my son was treated"

N’Simba’s story
Moises Da Silva at a local malaria clinic in Brazil - Photo: ITN Productions/MMV

Moises lives in a remote region where relapsing malaria is a daily reality

Moises's story
10 - year- old Kenyan girl who had access to the first high-quality paediatric ACT - Photo: Alexander Kumar for Novartis AG

Treated with the first child-friendly antimalarial

Millicent's story
Mervis’ mother holding her daughter in Zambia - Photo: Transaid

Surviving severe malaria

Mervis' story
One-year-old Alexandria Katontoka in Zambia - Photo: Transaid

A second chance to live

Alexandria's story
Josephine, a community health volunteer (CHV) and an emergency transport scheme bicycle rider in Zambia - Photo: Toby Madden/Transaid

Saving lives with bicycle ambulances

Josephine's story
A Zambian mother holding her baby who received treatment for severe malaria - Photo: MAMaZ Against Malaria

Buying time to save a life

Inness’ story
Four-year-old Desmond Oming in Uganda - Photo: Damien Schumann/MMV

Recovering from severe malaria

Desmond’s story
Two-year-old Kamaragi at Luweero Hospital in Uganda - Photo: Pierre Hugo

Saved by injectable artesunate

Kamaragi's story
Pring Chon, soya bean and cassava farmer from Oslev Village in Cambodia - Photo: Damien Schumann/MMV

Relapsing malaria

Pring's story
Fatou Touray, Gambian mother and trader - Photo: Muhammed Joof

Mother and trader

Fatou Touray's story
Healthcare worker conducted blood tests in Cambodia - Photo: Damien Schumann/MMV

In need of alternative ACTs

Mom's story
Farmer Maurosia Nambooze and her of 3-year-old Jemima in Uganda

Protecting our children

Maurosia and Jemima's story
Farmer Rithsankan Kea Kim and his son in Cambodia - Photo: Damien Schumann/MMV

Single-exposure cure

Rithsankan's story
Six-months pregnant woman with her second child at a local clinic in Zambia - Photo: Christine Manyando

Protecting pregnant women

Angela's story
Bosede Adebayo and 11-month-old Precious treated by a doctor at the General Hospital Okeho in Nigeria

Saving more lives with current medicines

Saving Precious
Dr. John Amuasi in a laboratory in Ghana

Even doctors get malaria

John's story
The Mundia parents with their daughter at a clinic in Zambia - Photo: Christine Manyando

Regularly affected by malaria

The Mundia family's experience
Accredited Social Health Activist with her fellows raising awareness within communities of the need to ‘Test, Treat and Track’ malaria in India

Hope for a malaria-free India

Gitanjali's story
Dr. Kigbafori Silué with Dr. Xavier Ding at the Center Swiss Research Scientifiques En Côte D'ivoire (CSRS)

Capacity Building in Côte d'Ivoire

Xavier’s Experience
Three-year-old Saudat at Murtala Mohammed Specialist Hospital (MMSH) in Nigeria

Saving lives, changing practice

Saving Saudat
Nancy at the antenatal clinic at Kombewa District Hospital in Kenya

Pregnant and at risk of malaria

Nancy's story
Six-year-old Zakhiya in Ethiopia

Recovering from severe malaria

Zakhiya's story

Healed from malaria

Rosemary’s story
Rose Aluoch Ngala with her daughter in Kenya - Photo: Novartis

Treated with child-friendly medicine

Rose and Shanrol’s story