New malaria project in Rwanda

A new project to help improve malaria treatment in Rwanda involving bicycles has been set up.

Malaria No More, Project Rwanda and ExxonMobil have formed a partnership that will see health workers at the Rukara Health Facility given bikes, in order to increase the number of families at risk of malaria that they are able to visit.

This is part of a wider project from ExxonMobil to reach out to more isolated parts of Rwanda.

Dr Steven Phillips, ExxonMobil's medical director for global health issues, said: "We are proud to be supporting the Rukara Health Facility, whose efforts have demonstrated the effectiveness of malaria prevention and treatment programmes.

"These bicycles will increase the health workers' abilities to significantly broaden community outreach and impact."

ExxonMobil currently contributes to programmes to tackle malaria in more than 20 African countries and is the largest non-pharmaceutical corporate donor to malaria research.

Malaria No More is continuing to work towards its long-term goal of ending deaths caused by malaria by 2015.

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