What's new with malaria at the World Health Assembly in Geneva, Switzerland?
Take a step back.
A District Medical Officer in your country closed her register last night and wrote down what she saw this rainy season.
Stockouts.
A father walking past the public clinic to a private drug shop.
A bed net used to dry cassava.
A vaccine arriving in a village that had already buried two children.
She is one of more than a thousand sub-national malaria staff from across Africa who wrote down what they are seeing.
The Geneva Learning Foundation gathered their accounts into a single report, in collaboration with RBM Partnership to End Malaria.
Malaria: Turning the tide is the first insights report grounded in the real-world experiences of local actors.
Follow this link to get the report: https://doi.org/10.59350/t604g-66n28
The report does not tell Ministers what to do.
It tells you what your own workforce already knows.
About private providers carrying half the caseload.
About data the system collects but does not use.
About community readiness for the next generation of tools, including vaccines and gene drive.
This week you are deciding how to spend the next strategic plan.
The evidence your workforce has gathered is in this report, in their own words.
Read it before you sign.
Take a step back.
A District Medical Officer in your country closed her register last night and wrote down what she saw this rainy season.
Stockouts.
A father walking past the public clinic to a private drug shop.
A bed net used to dry cassava.
A vaccine arriving in a village that had already buried two children.
She is one of more than a thousand sub-national malaria staff from across Africa who wrote down what they are seeing.
The Geneva Learning Foundation gathered their accounts into a single report, in collaboration with RBM Partnership to End Malaria.
Malaria: Turning the tide is the first insights report grounded in the real-world experiences of local actors.
Follow this link to get the report: https://doi.org/10.59350/t604g-66n28
The report does not tell Ministers what to do.
It tells you what your own workforce already knows.
About private providers carrying half the caseload.
About data the system collects but does not use.
About community readiness for the next generation of tools, including vaccines and gene drive.
This week you are deciding how to spend the next strategic plan.
The evidence your workforce has gathered is in this report, in their own words.
Read it before you sign.
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What surprised us when we listened to the experiences of more than 1,000 health workers fighting malaria?
Their contributions became Malaria: Turning the Tide, the first peer-generated evidence base on malaria aligned with WHO normative guidance.
This post is a short selection of the contributions that surprised us most: working cases from named districts and named countries that read like natural experiments in malaria control.
See the first comment for links to the full report and articles.
Their contributions became Malaria: Turning the Tide, the first peer-generated evidence base on malaria aligned with WHO normative guidance.
This post is a short selection of the contributions that surprised us most: working cases from named districts and named countries that read like natural experiments in malaria control.
See the first comment for links to the full report and articles.
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What surprised us when we listened to the experiences of more than 1,000 health workers fighting malaria? Their contributions became Malaria: Turning the Tide, the first peer-generated evidence base on malaria aligned with WHO normative guidance. This post…
Read the full article: Turning the tide: a new insights report demonstrates why health worker knowledge is critical to ending malaria
https://redasadki.me/2026/04/17/turning-the-tide-a-new-insights-report-demonstrates-why-health-worker-knowledge-is-critical-to-ending-malaria/
Read what more than 1,000 sub-national malaria staff actually told us. The full report in English:
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15126588
Lisez ce que plus de mille agents de santé infranationaux nous ont dit. Le rapport complet en français:
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18067469
Watch the World Malaria Day Launch Event in English:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CN7uwkOYj30
Regardez le Grand événement à l'occasion de la Journée mondiale contre le paludisme, en français:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDigGCb_rBA
Enroll in the peer learning course Malaria: Turning the Tide, free for any practitioner, planner, or partner who wants to put these insights to work. In English:
https://go.learning.foundation/tglf/c/31995
Inscrivez-vous au cours d'apprentissage entre pairs Malaria: Turning the Tide, gratuit pour tout praticien, planificateur ou partenaire. En français:
https://go.learning.foundation/tglf/c/31996
https://redasadki.me/2026/04/17/turning-the-tide-a-new-insights-report-demonstrates-why-health-worker-knowledge-is-critical-to-ending-malaria/
Read what more than 1,000 sub-national malaria staff actually told us. The full report in English:
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15126588
Lisez ce que plus de mille agents de santé infranationaux nous ont dit. Le rapport complet en français:
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18067469
Watch the World Malaria Day Launch Event in English:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CN7uwkOYj30
Regardez le Grand événement à l'occasion de la Journée mondiale contre le paludisme, en français:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDigGCb_rBA
Enroll in the peer learning course Malaria: Turning the Tide, free for any practitioner, planner, or partner who wants to put these insights to work. In English:
https://go.learning.foundation/tglf/c/31995
Inscrivez-vous au cours d'apprentissage entre pairs Malaria: Turning the Tide, gratuit pour tout praticien, planificateur ou partenaire. En français:
https://go.learning.foundation/tglf/c/31996
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Turning the tide: a new insights report demonstrates why health worker knowledge is critical to ending malaria
Geneva, 17 April 2026 – The Geneva Learning Foundation releases the first peer-generated evidence base from more than a thousand frontline health workers on what is working, what is failing, and what needs to change in the fight against malaria. The Geneva…
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The Geneva Learning Foundation (TGLF) is pleased to announce the forthcoming launch of new insights from community-based health workers who are responding to climate change impacts on health.
A nurse in northern Ghana sees malaria cases climb after each unseasonal rain. She begins mapping breeding sites with community volunteers and rationing bed nets to pregnant women first.
The new insights report from The Geneva Learning Foundation documents what health workers like her are already doing. The evidence comes from more than a thousand frontline professionals across Africa, Asia, and Latin America.
They describe heat killing newborns, floods cutting off clinics, and crops failing in places that once fed children well. They also describe what is working: local surveillance networks built on WhatsApp, tree planting tied to maternal health visits, community education delivered in the languages elders actually speak.
The pattern is consistent across countries: health workers are leading the response, often without budget, recognition, or a seat at the policy table. That gap is the story.
Investment is flowing to climate adaptation, but very little reaches the people already adapting care every day. The report sets out what changes when their evidence is treated as evidence.
Read what they are seeing, and what they are asking decision makers to do next: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/new-insights-report-how-health-workers-leading-iekgf
A nurse in northern Ghana sees malaria cases climb after each unseasonal rain. She begins mapping breeding sites with community volunteers and rationing bed nets to pregnant women first.
The new insights report from The Geneva Learning Foundation documents what health workers like her are already doing. The evidence comes from more than a thousand frontline professionals across Africa, Asia, and Latin America.
They describe heat killing newborns, floods cutting off clinics, and crops failing in places that once fed children well. They also describe what is working: local surveillance networks built on WhatsApp, tree planting tied to maternal health visits, community education delivered in the languages elders actually speak.
The pattern is consistent across countries: health workers are leading the response, often without budget, recognition, or a seat at the policy table. That gap is the story.
Investment is flowing to climate adaptation, but very little reaches the people already adapting care every day. The report sets out what changes when their evidence is treated as evidence.
Read what they are seeing, and what they are asking decision makers to do next: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/new-insights-report-how-health-workers-leading-iekgf
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Dear Scholars of The Geneva Learning Foundation,
For those among our global community of Scholars who celebrate Eid El-Adha, we would like to extend our warmest wishes to you and your loved ones. Eid El-Adha, also known as the Festival of Sacrifice, is one of the most significant celebrations in the Islamic calendar, bringing together families and communities worldwide in a spirit of gratitude, generosity, and service to others.
The values at the heart of this celebration — sacrifice for the greater good, generosity toward those in need, and unwavering commitment to serving others — deeply reflect the work that many of you do every day. As health workers and leaders serving communities facing poverty, injustice, and health inequities, you embody these same principles of service and dedication. Your commitment to turning learning into action that improves health outcomes for the most vulnerable is itself a form of meaningful sacrifice and service.
We hope this special occasion provides you with meaningful time with family and friends, and renewed inspiration for the vital work you do. As a global community united in our mission to create lasting change in health outcomes, we are strengthened by the diverse traditions, values, and perspectives our Scholars bring from around the world.
Eid Mubarak to you and your families!
For those among our global community of Scholars who celebrate Eid El-Adha, we would like to extend our warmest wishes to you and your loved ones. Eid El-Adha, also known as the Festival of Sacrifice, is one of the most significant celebrations in the Islamic calendar, bringing together families and communities worldwide in a spirit of gratitude, generosity, and service to others.
The values at the heart of this celebration — sacrifice for the greater good, generosity toward those in need, and unwavering commitment to serving others — deeply reflect the work that many of you do every day. As health workers and leaders serving communities facing poverty, injustice, and health inequities, you embody these same principles of service and dedication. Your commitment to turning learning into action that improves health outcomes for the most vulnerable is itself a form of meaningful sacrifice and service.
We hope this special occasion provides you with meaningful time with family and friends, and renewed inspiration for the vital work you do. As a global community united in our mission to create lasting change in health outcomes, we are strengthened by the diverse traditions, values, and perspectives our Scholars bring from around the world.
Eid Mubarak to you and your families!
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Global health architecture, what are we missing? Read Reda Sadki's new article: https://redasadki.me/2026/05/27/global-health-architecture-what-are-we-missing/
Everyone agrees global health needs reform.
The diagnosis is familiar.
Too many actors.
Too much fragmentation.
Too little coordination.
But what if the missing piece is not another institution?
What if it is the people already doing the work?
The nurse adapting guidance during an outbreak.
The district manager solving a supply gap.
The community health worker learning what works, day by day.
Global health architecture is usually drawn from the top.
This article looks from where health actually happens.
It asks what becomes visible when reform starts with practitioners.
And it challenges us to think beyond structures, funding, and mandates.
Read it for a grounded view of what global health reform may be missing.
Everyone agrees global health needs reform.
The diagnosis is familiar.
Too many actors.
Too much fragmentation.
Too little coordination.
But what if the missing piece is not another institution?
What if it is the people already doing the work?
The nurse adapting guidance during an outbreak.
The district manager solving a supply gap.
The community health worker learning what works, day by day.
Global health architecture is usually drawn from the top.
This article looks from where health actually happens.
It asks what becomes visible when reform starts with practitioners.
And it challenges us to think beyond structures, funding, and mandates.
Read it for a grounded view of what global health reform may be missing.
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Join the first Bundibugyo virus disease Teach to Reach session:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85731864236
On June 4, 2026, Scholars from the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda will kick off the first Teach to Reach session focused on Bundibugyo virus disease (BVD).
Together, we will launch the first peer learning course on BVD, open to anyone involved in preparedness and response.
Come with a challenge drawn from your own work.
Listen to peers directly involved in the response.
Learn how to protect yourself, your patients, and your team.
You put on your gloves.
You do not yet know what you are up against.
A fever that resembles malaria.
A test that comes back negative.
A patient whose condition is worsening.
This is how Bundibugyo virus disease can go unnoticed.
Its early signs resemble illnesses you see every week, and only a lab test can distinguish them.
In the first weeks of this outbreak, healthcare workers were among the first to fall ill.
Courage deserves more than to be borne alone.
This virus crosses borders.
It has already reached two capital cities.
Do not wait.
Join us on June 4.
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85731864236
On June 4, 2026, Scholars from the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda will kick off the first Teach to Reach session focused on Bundibugyo virus disease (BVD).
Together, we will launch the first peer learning course on BVD, open to anyone involved in preparedness and response.
Come with a challenge drawn from your own work.
Listen to peers directly involved in the response.
Learn how to protect yourself, your patients, and your team.
You put on your gloves.
You do not yet know what you are up against.
A fever that resembles malaria.
A test that comes back negative.
A patient whose condition is worsening.
This is how Bundibugyo virus disease can go unnoticed.
Its early signs resemble illnesses you see every week, and only a lab test can distinguish them.
In the first weeks of this outbreak, healthcare workers were among the first to fall ill.
Courage deserves more than to be borne alone.
This virus crosses borders.
It has already reached two capital cities.
Do not wait.
Join us on June 4.
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We are pleased to share 14 practical recommendations for global partners, national planners, and community-based health and humanitarian workers responding to the impacts of climate change on health. Read the full article: https://redasadki.me/2026/05/26/climate-change-and-health-14-recommendations-for-health-workers-national-planners-and-global-partners/
Jean-Richard Mutombo and his neighbours in Tshibuba started building a health centre themselves.
Storms had destroyed the village health post, schools, homes, and plantations.
The nearest facility was more than 10 kilometres away.
They did not wait.
A grant that arrives in months arrives after the community has moved on.
That is one of 14 practical recommendations organised for three audiences: community health staff, managers and planners, and global partners.
They follow one principle: the solutions are already in the field.
Pirogues, mobile clinics, community-built health centres, solidarity funds, WhatsApp antenatal care.
The job of policy is to recognise, fund, and protect what already works.
Three years from now, success looks like a district plan that lists the Ngandajika women's fund as a partner organisation.
It looks like a reimbursement line in Tanzania's Ministry of Health budget for the motorbikes a midwife currently hires herself.
It looks like a grant that reaches Jean-Richard in time to finish what he started.
The people are named, the places are real, and the actions are within reach.
Jean-Richard Mutombo and his neighbours in Tshibuba started building a health centre themselves.
Storms had destroyed the village health post, schools, homes, and plantations.
The nearest facility was more than 10 kilometres away.
They did not wait.
A grant that arrives in months arrives after the community has moved on.
That is one of 14 practical recommendations organised for three audiences: community health staff, managers and planners, and global partners.
They follow one principle: the solutions are already in the field.
Pirogues, mobile clinics, community-built health centres, solidarity funds, WhatsApp antenatal care.
The job of policy is to recognise, fund, and protect what already works.
Three years from now, success looks like a district plan that lists the Ngandajika women's fund as a partner organisation.
It looks like a reimbursement line in Tanzania's Ministry of Health budget for the motorbikes a midwife currently hires herself.
It looks like a grant that reaches Jean-Richard in time to finish what he started.
The people are named, the places are real, and the actions are within reach.
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We are pleased to launch 8 key findings from first insights report by and for health workers responding to the impacts of climate change on health. Read the full article: https://redasadki.me/2026/05/26/climate-change-and-health-8-take-aways-from-community-based-responses/
In Niger in 2024, the rains were heavier than any elder alive could remember.
The flooding washed away tracks, drowned crops, and cut villages off from the nearest health facility.
The seasonal malaria chemoprevention campaign was supposed to be running.
The malaria control programme recruited local distributors and brought them in by pirogue.
The campaign continued.
This is one of eight patterns that appear, country after country, in those accounts.
Familiar diseases are arriving earlier and reaching further.
Community financing is paying for hospital stays and emergency transport.
Workers are running telemedicine on the WhatsApp groups they already have.
And every health worker absorbing the cost of climate adaptation is doing it out of her own pocket, with no reimbursement structure in place.
The protocols most workers are following were written for a climate that no longer exists.
The eight findings show what workers in 19 countries changed in practice, and what that tells the rest of the system.
If you manage a district, plan a national programme, or fund global health, one of the eight findings is about you.
In Niger in 2024, the rains were heavier than any elder alive could remember.
The flooding washed away tracks, drowned crops, and cut villages off from the nearest health facility.
The seasonal malaria chemoprevention campaign was supposed to be running.
The malaria control programme recruited local distributors and brought them in by pirogue.
The campaign continued.
This is one of eight patterns that appear, country after country, in those accounts.
Familiar diseases are arriving earlier and reaching further.
Community financing is paying for hospital stays and emergency transport.
Workers are running telemedicine on the WhatsApp groups they already have.
And every health worker absorbing the cost of climate adaptation is doing it out of her own pocket, with no reimbursement structure in place.
The protocols most workers are following were written for a climate that no longer exists.
The eight findings show what workers in 19 countries changed in practice, and what that tells the rest of the system.
If you manage a district, plan a national programme, or fund global health, one of the eight findings is about you.
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In the Netherlands, almost half of displaced people from Ukraine in the Netherlands report feeling mentally unhealthy.
Only about 7% have seen a psychologist.
Psychological first aid is the simple human support that helps a frightened child feel safe and calm.
Any trusted adult can learn to offer it.
You do not need to be a specialist.
Since 2023, a peer learning network has grown, led by Ukrainian practitioners and colleagues from all over Europe.
By September 2025, it connected 331 organizations and roughly 10,000 staff and volunteers.
76% of participants are inside Ukraine, most in small, locally led groups in conflict-affected areas.
Today, the Netherlands national support hub for displaced people from Ukraine joined this network.
It coordinates care across 342 municipalities and around 1,500 shelter locations.
The same peer support that sustains a committed teacher, social worker, or health professional in Ukraine can now sustain a colleague in a Dutch shelter.
Learn how this network is making a difference, why LOOP joined it, and what it offers the people who support these children: https://redasadki.me/2026/06/11/the-netherlands-national-mhpss-hub-joins-the-european-peer-learning-network-for-psychological-first-aid/
Only about 7% have seen a psychologist.
Psychological first aid is the simple human support that helps a frightened child feel safe and calm.
Any trusted adult can learn to offer it.
You do not need to be a specialist.
Since 2023, a peer learning network has grown, led by Ukrainian practitioners and colleagues from all over Europe.
By September 2025, it connected 331 organizations and roughly 10,000 staff and volunteers.
76% of participants are inside Ukraine, most in small, locally led groups in conflict-affected areas.
Today, the Netherlands national support hub for displaced people from Ukraine joined this network.
It coordinates care across 342 municipalities and around 1,500 shelter locations.
The same peer support that sustains a committed teacher, social worker, or health professional in Ukraine can now sustain a colleague in a Dutch shelter.
Learn how this network is making a difference, why LOOP joined it, and what it offers the people who support these children: https://redasadki.me/2026/06/11/the-netherlands-national-mhpss-hub-joins-the-european-peer-learning-network-for-psychological-first-aid/
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Teach to Reach: What you can do when climate change hurts your community
This month, the Teach to Reach Launch Event is about climate change and health.
Health workers from more than 70 countries will meet online to share what climate change is doing to the communities they serve.
This time, the focus will be on what health leaders are doing about it.
For three years, health workers have told us what no dashboard records.
The malaria season that starts early.
The cholera that follows the flood.
The pregnant woman who cannot reach the maternity ward when the road is gone.
You have seen it.
You have also found ways around it.
You are not the only one facing the impacts of climate change on health.
Come and bring one challenge you are facing right now.
In one hour you will:
1️⃣ Hear peers who turned the same problem into a working solution in their own context.
2️⃣ Find the free TGLF certification built to help you act on your challenge.
3️⃣ Meet colleagues from dozens of countries you can message ne
This month, the Teach to Reach Launch Event is about climate change and health.
Health workers from more than 70 countries will meet online to share what climate change is doing to the communities they serve.
This time, the focus will be on what health leaders are doing about it.
For three years, health workers have told us what no dashboard records.
The malaria season that starts early.
The cholera that follows the flood.
The pregnant woman who cannot reach the maternity ward when the road is gone.
You have seen it.
You have also found ways around it.
You are not the only one facing the impacts of climate change on health.
Come and bring one challenge you are facing right now.
In one hour you will:
1️⃣ Hear peers who turned the same problem into a working solution in their own context.
2️⃣ Find the free TGLF certification built to help you act on your challenge.
3️⃣ Meet colleagues from dozens of countries you can message ne
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Gavi just published the story of how TGLF's Scholars in DRC and Uganda are responding to the Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak. https://www.gavi.org/vaccineswork/how-peer-network-mobilising-against-bundibugyo-virus-drc-and-uganda
The Teach to Reach network has met every Saturday since July 2019, without per diems or external funding.
When the outbreak was confirmed in May 2026, they had cross-border sessions running within two weeks.
Six weeks after declaration, denial of the disease was still the majority view in one surveyed zone. The network put the disagreements on the record: on burial practices, on who should perform them, on how trust is built before expertise can land.
Timestamped. Attributed. A by-product of weekly learning.
The Teach to Reach network has met every Saturday since July 2019, without per diems or external funding.
When the outbreak was confirmed in May 2026, they had cross-border sessions running within two weeks.
Six weeks after declaration, denial of the disease was still the majority view in one surveyed zone. The network put the disagreements on the record: on burial practices, on who should perform them, on how trust is built before expertise can land.
Timestamped. Attributed. A by-product of weekly learning.
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