Voices III: Malaria Powerbrokers

Malaria Powerbroker's activities include:

• cultivating strong champions among UAM private sector partners;
• building advocacy skills among UAM partners and collecting data on malaria control's return on investment;
• inspiring partners to become malaria advocates;
• developing advocacy opportunities such as UAM football events to motivate government leaders to use donor resources more efficiently.

Malaria

Voices III: Malaria Powerbrokers is the third iteration of the advocacy project, Voices for a Malaria-Free Future, which cites the following as examples of accomplishments:

• United Against Malaria, led in Africa by Voices Against Malaria, works to build support for universal access to mosquito nets and malaria medicine in Africa (a critical first step toward eliminating malaria deaths by 2015) using people's passion for football as a catalyst. Voices brought UAM to the FIFA World Cup in South Africa, the CECAFA Tusker Challenge Cup in Tanzania, and the Africa Cup of Nations in Equatorial Guinea and Gabon, as well as many regional and club tournaments throughout sub-Saharan Africa.
• Voices developed the Malaria Safe initiative built on four pillars — education, protection, visibility, and advocacy — in response to the desire of African-based companies to protect their employees and communities from malaria and document the impact. Since the programme launched in 2010, about 35 companies have distributed nets to employees, updated their diagnosis and treatment protocols, and joined forces with Malaria Safe partners to increase public awareness about malaria.
• Parliamentary Forums on Malaria: National assemblies in Africa play an important role in controlling the policies, programmes, and financing for health. Beginning in 2010, Voices has partnered with donors, multilaterals, and civil society organisations to build national and multi-national parliamentary networks to target obstacles to malaria control in a collaborative way. The first such parliamentary forum took place in Mali with seventy-six parliamentarians from 18 countries in West and Central Africa.