Malaria No More - United Kingdom

Our History

Malaria No More was established in the US in 2006 by News Corporation President Peter Chernin and Wall Street pioneer Ray Chambers. Since that time, Malaria No More has been at the centre of some of the biggest successes in the malaria fight including:

• Co-hosting the first White House Summit on Malaria, September 2008 and prompting U.S. participation on World Malaria Day, 25 April
• Educating over 40 million Americans about malaria and raising tens of millions of dollars through involvement in 'Idol Gives Back' charity specials on American Idol, April 2007 & 2008
• Facilitating direct investments to help mobilise 15 million mosquito nets to protect 30 million African mothers and their children from malaria
• Working with the UK & US governments at the 2008 G8 and the EU to secure a pledge of 100 million mosquito nets for Africa by the end of 2010

In September 2008, Malaria No More, the UK Department for International Development, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Office of the UN Special Envoy for Malaria hosted the 2008 MDG Malaria Summit, which saw the launch of Roll Back Malaria’s Global Malaria Action Plan to help achieve the goals. Malaria No More is a key ingredient in this plan.

Malaria No More UK was founded in 2008 in order to strengthen UK political and financial support and increase the UK public’s awareness of the impact of malaria in Africa. The first Executive Director, Sarah Kline, was appointed on December 1 and Sarah has since appointed a small team.

Key moments in the past 3 years

2006 - MNM founded in the US

2007 – January 15 George Osborne makes a speech in Uganda declaring “We can win the war against malaria in our lifetime.” He announces the Conservative Party is pledged to spend a minimum of £500 million - or $1bn - a year tackling malaria in Sub-Saharan Africa, every year until the Millennium Development Goals on malaria have been met (a pledge later repeated by David Cameron for World Malaria Day 2008).

2007 - July 11 Gordon Brown, standing alongside the UN Secretary General, announces MDG Call to Action to accelerate progress on the MDGs

2008 - April 9 PM appears on American Idol to announce UK pledge to provide 20 million bed nets, this is also featured in The Sun newspaper.

2008 – June European Union announces 75 million bed nets by 2010 to help reach UN goal.

2008 – July 9 G8 announces 100 million bed nets by 2010 to help reach UN goal (based on G8 members of the EU and additional G8 countries’ pledges).

2008 - September 25 UN High Level Event on the MDGs announces some $16 billion in funding including $3 billion for malaria. The Global Malaria Action Plan is also announced with support pledged from Bill Gates, [add other key people present], and the Prime Minister.

2008 – December 1 Malaria No More UK is founded.

2009 – Davos. PM joins Bill and Melinda Gates, Peter Chernin, Peter Sands and Rex Tillerson, to lend his support for the Malaria Capital Campaign (MCC). The campaign aims to raise $100 million from the private sector and governments for tackling malaria by the end of 2010.

2009 – 13 March PM announces £2 million for malaria to match that raised by the Comic Relief Kilimanjaro climbers