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Last year, Inis Communication created The Social Media Awards to recognize and promote the use of social media in global health. Social media platforms such as Twitter and Facebook are central to engaging wider audiences in information sharing, dialogue, knowledge creation and collaborative action on priority health issues.
This year, the Social Media Awards are recognizing and rewarding malaria champions – people from all over the world fighting to defeat malaria. Malaria heroes are regional leaders, innovators, communicators, health workers, and others; anyone that is dedicated to seeing this disease made history. Inis Communication is working with the Awards’ sponsors to celebrate these individuals’ successes.
The fight against malaria is gaining ground, with malaria death rates among young children more than halved and more than 6.2 million lives saved since 2000. Despite this collective progress, over half a million adults and children died in the past year from a disease that is largely preventable and entirely treatable.
Defeating malaria will both contribute to—and benefit from—sustainable development. On the cusp of the post-2015 sustainable development goals (SDGs), now is the time to recognize and further enable malaria heroes—from all sectors—to #DefeatMalaria.