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- According to the World Health Organization, malaria mortality rates have fallen by 58 percent among children in Africa and 47 percent worldwide since 2000.
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- The ELCA Malaria Campaign is an initiative of the ELCA’s five-year comprehensive campaign, Always Being Made New: The Campaign for the ELCA.
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- Malaria costs about $3 to diagnose and treat, so every dollar committed to the ELCA Malaria Campaign makes a difference.
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- Through the ELCA Malaria Campaign, more than 32,000 expectant mothers have received preventive malaria treatment.
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- Through the ELCA Malaria Campaign, more than 50,000 mosquito nets have been distributed to vulnerable households.
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- Programs supported by the ELCA Malaria Campaign have educated more than 2 million people about malaria prevention and treatment.
The ELCA is part of a worldwide movement that is reducing the malaria mortality rate. According to the World Health Organization, malaria mortality rates have fallen by 58 percent among children in Africa and 47 percent worldwide since 2000. Through the ELCA Malaria Campaign, ELCA members and others have contributed $13.8 million toward the campaign’s goal of raising $15 million by the end of 2015. ELCA members have joined with companion Lutheran churches and partners in 13 African countries to educate communities, prevent and treat the disease.
