John Hewko – 2026 Convention

Rotary International | RI General Secretary John Hewko speaks during general session 2. Rotary International Convention, 16 June 2026. Taipei, Taiwan.

Progress report: Partners for a Malaria-Free Zambia

Rotary International | When the Partners for a Malaria-Free Zambia program began five years ago, Rotarian Bill Feldt offered a forecast of what success would look like in 2026: “I would hope we’d see a dramatic reduction in malaria incidence,” he told Rotary magazine in 2021. “We’d want to see a self-sustaining health system that is fully utilizing community health workers, where they are diagnosing 60 to 70 percent of whatever small number of cases of malaria there are. … We’ll see that turnover for community health workers is low … They will represent the last kilometer of a health system that’s very successful.”

A happiness hypothesis

Rotary International | One of Rotary’s single most ambitious projects, to confront malaria in Zambia, has roots in a friendship. When Rotarian Bill Feldt discusses the initiative, which grew to receive The Rotary Foundation’s first $2 million Programs of Scale award in 2021, he doesn’t mention dollars secured or accolades collected.

Expanding Uganda’s Integrated Community Case Management Through Innovative Partnership – Rotary Partnership

Pilgrim Africa | In the past two years, Rotary, Malaria Partners International. Pilgrim Africa, and World Vision partnered with the Ministry of Health to bring community management of malaria, pneumonia, and diarrhea to more than 500,000 Ugandans at high risk of disease, training, equipping and supplying over 2000 village health teams.

C-Care, Hope Against Malaria Launch Lifesaving Anti-Malaria Campaign in Namuwongo Slum

NilePost News Uganda | C-Care Uganda has partnered with Hope Against Malaria and several community stakeholders to roll out a comprehensive three-month malaria prevention and treatment project in Namuwongo, Kampala’s second-largest slum.

Rotary Malaria Grant Awarded to RHCI

Rural Health Care Initiative | Malaria, a global scourge claiming countless lives annually, disproportionately affects children under the age of 5, particularly in Sierra Leone where its impact is grave. RHCI proudly announces a $10,000 grant from Rotary’s Malaria Partners International (MPI) and Rotarians Against Malaria-Global, in collaboration with Bo (Sierra Leone) Rotary Club.

Environmental Specialist urges govts. to redirect Malaria elimination to preventive approaches

Freedom Online, Nigeria | The MD said that mosquitoes have killed more than half of human population that has passed through the earth, with over 100 million cases globally. According to him,  Nigeria records 31.6 per cent of these statistics making it the highest in the world. He said that the community mosquito control intervention was put in place to curb the effects among  pregnant women and children below five years as they were the most affected.

A Community Cure

Rotary International | Backed by Rotary’s Programs of Scale award, Partners for a Malaria-Free Zambia confronts a worldwide malady at the local level

Rotary Voices Podcast – A Community Cure

Rotary Voices Podcast | Partners for a Malaria-Free Zambia, the recipient of Rotary’s first Programs of Scale award, is confronting a worldwide malady at the local level by working to train and equip 2,500 community health workers in Zambia’s Central and Muchinga provinces. This audio version of a in the is narrated by award-winning broadcast journalist Linda Yu.

Rotary members and partners fight to end malaria

Rotary Service in Action Blog| By Nyreese Castro-Espadas, MD, MPH, CPH, Area of Focus Manager-Disease Prevention & Treatment, Maternal and Child Health

Philanthropy News Digest | Rotary International, World Vision, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation have announced commitments totaling $6 million in support of efforts to reduce malaria deaths in Zambia.

Rotary-led Partners for a Malaria-Free Zambia awarded US$6 million to reduce burden of malaria in heavily affected districts

Rotary International | LUSAKA, Zambia (March 9, 2021) — 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.