Cause
Malaria
Malaria kills many young children each year. Bed nets and seasonal preventive medicine are among the best-evidenced ways to give.
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Highest-rated charities
Listed by evaluator designation, with each one's headline figure exactly as published.
Against Malaria Foundation
Buys long-lasting insecticide-treated bed nets and works with local partners to hand them out in places where malaria is common, then checks the nets are still in use.
$5,500 per life saved
GiveWell, 2022–2024 average
Malaria Consortium
Gives young children preventive malaria medicine during the rainy months, when malaria spreads most.
$4,000 per life saved
GiveWell, 2022–2024 average
What works, and how we know
Seasonal malaria medicine
Preventive malaria medicine given to young children each month during the rainy season, when malaria spreads most.
Evidence: Exceptionally strong (GiveWell)
Bed nets against malaria
Long-lasting insecticide-treated nets that protect families from malaria-carrying mosquitoes while they sleep.
Evidence: Exceptionally strong (GiveWell)
Malaria vaccine rollout
Technical help for health ministries adding the new malaria vaccines to routine childhood immunization.
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Questions donors ask
- What is the most effective charity for malaria?
We don't pick a winner ourselves. The highest-rated charities here are Against Malaria Foundation, Malaria Consortium, based on what GiveWell and the Happier Lives Institute publish. Each charity page shows the figures, the source and how strong the evidence is.
- Should I give to one charity or a fund?
Both are reasonable. A fund run by an evaluator lets them direct your gift to where they judge the need is greatest; giving to one charity lets you choose the program yourself.
- Are these figures guaranteed?
No. They are evaluators' modeled estimates of the average. Real results can be higher or lower, and evaluators update them as they learn.