David Beckham and experts unite to launch Zero Malaria Experience
David Beckham and experts unite to launch Zero Malaria Experience
Today, we’re launching the Zero Malaria Experience – a new film and immersive installation showing how innovation and funding can save millions of children’s lives and unlock potential across the globe.
The Zero Malaria Experience will take over London’s Outernet on 4th November for special closed event supported by the ADOT Foundation. The event will include the live premiere of the new campaign film featuring our Leadership Council member David Beckham alongside malaria scientists, global health experts, campaigners and leaders to show the power of teamwork in beating the disease.
Using brand new research, the Zero Malaria Experience and accompanying film show for the first time the impact we can have by bringing together our existing malaria-fighting tools, like mosquito nets and medicines, with potential future scientific breakthroughs like next generation vaccines and gene-drive technology.
The research by Imperial College London estimates more than 13.2 million lives could be saved over the next 15 years in sub-Saharan Africa from existing and future tools combined – 900,000 lives a year.
Malaria impacts children the most, taking a child’s life every single minute. Ten million of the lives saved would be children under five years of age.
Challenges like climate change, drug resistance, and funding gaps are making malaria harder to control. To get the fight back on track, governments around the world need to fully fund initiatives like Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, and the Global Fund to fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria – which ensure malaria-fighting tools get to the people who need them – as well as continuing to invest in malaria science.
There’s no silver bullet to beat this disease – our life-saving tools are most effective when we use them in combination, and as malaria adapts, we need to stay one step ahead. Join us in calling for increased funding to save lives using the social media toolkit.
We are grateful for the incredible support shown by numerous partners on this campaign. We’re proud to have partnered with creative production and experiential entertainment studio The Mill to develop the Zero Malaria Experience and to have filmed at ZeroSpace in New York in partnership with 4Wall Entertainment.
Dr Astrid Bonfield, CEO of Malaria No More UK, said:
"Ahead of the G20 this year, I hope the Zero Malaria Experience demonstrates to leaders around the world the life-saving power of teamwork to provide the support our scientists need.
"We need governments around the world to fully fund Gavi and the Global Fund so our life-saving tools can reach those who need them, as well as investing in a pipeline of future innovations. And we need the UK government in particular to maintain its global leadership by funding these critical organisations and backing world-leading British-backed malaria science.
"This can save millions of children’s lives and help to foster greater stability across economies, health systems and societies for years to come."
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