Posted by Sam McCurdy
Rotarians Against Malaria (RAM) Australia are volunteers who are passionate about eliminating malaria in our partner countries. RAM is an Australian registered charity, and it is part of the Rotary Australia World Community Service (RAWCS).
The RAM Australia Fun Run aims to raise funds to help fight malaria, which has killed and debilitated humans since history began. Though there have been impressive reductions in the incidence of both disease and death in this century, with a halving of cases and deaths since 2000; malaria remains a disease that causes over 400,000 fatalities every year—many of them among small children—and imposes a heavy burden on the health and wellbeing of some 229 million people.
