About Us

RAM-Global (Rotarians Against Malaria – Global Rotary Action Group) is a Rotary Action Group committed to the worldwide elimination of malaria. Working alongside Rotarians, communities and partners around the world, we support proven approaches that demonstrate malaria can be dramatically reduced—and ultimately eliminated.

Rotary International and The Rotary Foundation awarded their first-ever Programs of Scale grant to strengthen malaria elimination efforts in Zambia. RAM-Global also works with RAM-Australia and other partners whose programs continue to demonstrate what can be achieved through collaboration, education and effective community-based action.

Through small grants ($2500 or less), special projects, and global grants, RAM-Global provides resources and support to in-country Rotarians, Community Health Promoters and other partners working directly in communities affected by malaria.

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What We Do

At the heart of many RAM-Global projects are Community Health Workers (CHWs)—the boots on the ground who serve communities where access to healthcare is limited.

RAM-Global helps provide the training, tools and resources these frontline workers need to prevent, diagnose and respond to malaria. Depending on the project and local needs, support includes:

• Training and education of Community Health Workers (CHW's)
• Rapid diagnostic tests and access to appropriate treatment
• Insecticide treated Mosquito nets and other vector-control interventions
• Branded bicycles and transportation to reach remote communities
• Branded clothing, rain gear, boots and backpacks
• Mobile phones and digital tools for reporting malaria data
• Community education and malaria awareness
• Support for monitoring, evaluation and data collection

These investments help Community Health Workers reach more people, identify malaria cases earlier, support appropriate treatment and provide critical data to local health systems and Ministries of Health.

The impact extends beyond malaria. When malaria is reduced, children miss fewer days of school, parents lose fewer working days caring for sick family members, and communities become healthier and more economically resilient.

Innovation & New Tools

Malaria research continues to produce new tools and strategies for preventing, diagnosing and treating malaria and other mosquito-borne diseases.

RAM-Global works with partners to support and incorporate proven innovations into malaria programs. Digital infrastructure is improving healthcare delivery and enabling faster reporting of community-level data to Ministries of Health. Advances in rapid diagnostics and treatment are increasingly important as resistance to antimalarial drugs and insecticides continues to challenge malaria control.

New interventions, including spatial repellents, are also expanding the malaria-prevention toolbox and creating additional opportunities to protect households and communities.

How Do We Eliminate Malaria?

There is no single solution to malaria.

Our experience demonstrates the importance of multiple interventions working together, delivered by trained and properly equipped Community Health Workers and supported by local Rotary, Rotaract, and Interact Clubs, health authorities, Ministries of Health and other partners.

Prevention, testing, treatment, education, data collection, vector control and emerging tools can work together to drive malaria cases down and help communities sustain those gains.

RAM-Global works to help take effective interventions to scale, particularly in communities where the malaria burden remains high.

The Longer Vision: Malaria—Here Today, Gone Tomorrow

RAM-Global's vision extends beyond reducing malaria cases. We seek to help communities build the knowledge, relationships and health systems necessary to achieve and sustain malaria elimination.

The infrastructure and community networks developed through malaria programs can also contribute to broader health goals—from safe water and sanitation to nutrition, deworming, health education and stronger access to community healthcare.

The legacy of malaria elimination can therefore reach far beyond malaria itself: stronger health systems, lives saved, empowered communities and healthier futures.