Malaria Initiative

Freedom from Hunger’s efforts to combat malaria focus on strengthening the knowledge and skills of health care consumers, the women and families threatened by malaria though education and improving their access to proven preventions (like ITNs). This section contains information about these efforts.

Net Gains: How Freedom From Hunger is Fighting Malaria

This flier explains Freedom from Hunger’s efforts to combat malaria – namely, to equip poor women with information, financial resources, bednets and linkages to health services to protect themselves, their families and their communities from the disease. The flier describes the first phase of these efforts, which included development of a malaria education module and completion of an impact study to verify the initiative was achieving its desired outcomes, and outlines plans for expansion.