ExxonMobil Announces Further Efforts to Fight Malaria
April 25 2018 - 10:00AM
Business Wire
- Funding supports research, health
services and developing the next generation of global health
leaders
- $170 million invested in combatting
malaria since 2000
- 650,000 health workers trained, more
than 3 million rapid diagnostic kits delivered
ExxonMobil today said it renewed its support for local and
global organizations committed to ending malaria around the world.
This year’s grants total $7.36 million and will continue the
company’s longstanding commitment to reducing the global burden of
malaria, a disease that still leads to an estimated 445,000 deaths
annually despite being preventable, treatable and curable.
ExxonMobil’s malaria initiative helps to advance progress
against the disease by working with nonprofit partners to build
health system capacity, further malaria education, advance research
and development, improve access to tools for prevention and
treatment and support rising global health leaders.
“Investing in the next generation of leaders is crucial to
winning the fight against malaria,” said Kevin Murphy, president of
the ExxonMobil Foundation. “We recognize the importance of
supporting and inspiring young scientists, health workers and
decision-makers to drive progress toward ending this deadly
disease.”
ExxonMobil works with partners across Angola,
Cameroon, Chad, Equatorial Guinea, Mozambique, Nigeria, Papua New
Guinea and Tanzania to advocate for solutions to fight the disease.
Planned activities and public events to recognize World Malaria Day
include voluntary testing and counseling sessions, mosquito net
distribution, community clean-up campaigns, school engagements and
public awareness campaigns in ExxonMobil affiliates around the
world.
Since 2000, ExxonMobil has partnered with the world’s leading
global health organizations to reach more than 125 million people
with the tools and training they need to fight malaria. ExxonMobil
has invested a total of $170 million in malaria programs,
supporting the delivery of 14.4 million bed nets to prevent
mosquito bites, the administration of 4.7 million antimalarial
treatments and the distribution of over 3 million rapid diagnostic
kits. The company has also supported the training of nearly 650,000
health workers.
Atai Okokon, an alumna of the ExxonMobil Global Health Scholar
program at the University of Oxford, has benefited from
ExxonMobil’s programs and is using her training to combat the
disease back home in Nigeria.
“I decided to pursue a degree in global health because I wanted
to be a leader and change the world,” she said. “As a pharmacist
and a public health advocate, I use the knowledge that I gained at
Oxford to defeat malaria in Nigeria.”
2018 grant recipients include:
- ExxonMobil Global Health Scholars at
the University of Oxford, to train emerging young leaders in a
global health-focused graduate studies program.
- Global Health Corps, to provide
opportunities for young professionals to work on the front lines of
global health in skills-based, yearlong fellowships.
- Grassroot Soccer, to use the convening
power of soccer to increase awareness of malaria and HIV/AIDS among
young people across Africa through sports curriculum.
- Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public
Health, to advance scientific knowledge and understanding to
advance progress toward the eradication of malaria.
- Seed Global Health, to strengthen
health education and delivery by meeting long-term health care
human resource needs in countries facing a dire shortage of health
professionals.
ADPP Angola, Africare, Baylor University, CDC Foundation,
Friends of the Global Fight, Jhpiego, Malaria No More, Medicines
for Malaria Venture, PATH Malaria Vaccine Initiative, Population
Services International, President’s Malaria Initiative, Special
Olympics, and the Worldwide Antimalarial Resistance Network also
received grants for 2018.
About ExxonMobil
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About the ExxonMobil Foundation
The ExxonMobil Foundation is the primary philanthropic arm of
Exxon Mobil Corporation (NYSE:XOM) in the United States. The
foundation and corporation engage in a range of philanthropic
activities that advance education, promote women as catalysts for
economic development and combat malaria. In the United States,
ExxonMobil supports initiatives to improve math and science
education at the K-12 and higher education levels. In 2016, the
ExxonMobil Foundation together with Exxon Mobil Corporation, its
divisions and affiliates along with employees and retirees,
provided $242 million in contributions worldwide.
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