According to the latest WHO estimates, released in September 2015, there were 214 million cases of malaria in 2015 and 438,000 deaths—mostly children under the age of five in sub-Saharan Africa. While a child dies of malaria every two minutes, malaria is preventable and treatable; lives do not have to be lost to this disease. Insecticide-treated bed nets are the most cost-effective tool to prevent and control the spread of malaria.

 

The Global Fund is the largest international financing institution created to raise resources to fight AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria. While the Global Fund does not implement programs directly, it funds partnerships between national governments, civil society, local communities, and the private sector to design and carry out malaria programming. The Global Fund will hold its fifth replenishment conference on September 16 in Montreal, Canada.