Welcome to Rotarians Against Malaria – an activity of Rotary Australia World Community Service (RAWCS)

Rotarians Against Malaria (RAM) is a volunteer-run organisation working to eliminate malaria. In 1900s, malaria was pandemic in the world. One can only imagine the burden of malaria disease to all countries. Progress has been made. Fifteen years ago, malaria killed a child every 30 seconds. Under the Millennium Development Goals, however, considerable progress was made in preventing, diagnosing and treating malaria. As a result, deaths have fallen by 60 percent. Now, under the ambitious Sustainable Development Goals, we are aiming to reduce malaria cases and deaths by a further 90 percent by 2030.

Rotarians Against Malaria is an activity of Rotary Australia World Community Service (RAWCS) and covers the following countries:

• Australia
• Papua New Guinea – RAM PNG is a partner of RAM in Australia
• Solomon Islands
• Timor Leste

Registration for our 2019 National Conference is now open!

Resources: Conference reports and RAM activities

Go to our Media Resources for copies of the 2018 and previous years’ conference presentations by our guest speakers. These reports are great sources of information on malaria and current innovations and researches in this field.

Follow the links to see details of our programs: Adopt A Village, Chasing Malaria, Healthy Villages, Private Sector,  Malaria Awareness Day, RAM PHD Scholarship. For live photos and updates, ‘Like” our Facebook Page!

Want to sign up for our RAM mailing list? Subscribe here!

See our Galleries for photos of our in-country programs and promotional activities.

Volunteer Trips

We facilitate opportunities for Rotarians and Rotaractors, especially those with expertise in medical science and project governance, to visit our in-country programs. In 2017, Dr Jenny Kerrison (PhD, DEd, RN, RM) led a group of RAM volunteers to Timor Leste. A brief RAWCS online report is available at our Newsletters page.

Partners

We partner with various other malaria elimination initiatives within the Rotary family and beyond. Some of these include:

https://malariavaccineproject.com/ – The world’s first malaria vaccine is being developed at Griffith University on the Gold Coast, supported by Rotary District 9640

 https://malaria.rotaract.org.au/ – Rotaractors Against Malaria is the national project of Rotaract in Australia, a network of service clubs for 18-30 year olds

For information about RAWCS, please visit their website by clicking the logo below:

For the Mosquito Wars campaign, Bill Gates has partnered with World Vision to distribute 100,000 bed nets to families from Inhambane province – a region in Mozambique where many people still sleep without nets. All you have to do is read the article and answer a one question quiz. Once completed, Gates will give a bed net to a family in need on your behalf via World Vision. https://www.gatesnotes.com/Health/Mosquito-Wars?WT.mc_id=08_15_2017_10_MosquitoWars_BG-EM_&WT.tsrc=BGEM

RAM District Representatives