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The Geneva Learning Foundation runs Teach to Reach, a peer learning platform for people who work for health. Rather than flying experts in to tell health workers what to do, the Foundation asks health workers to write up what they actually did at work, analyses what comes back, and returns it to them as reports and courses. Two days before World Malaria Day 2026, the Foundation published Turning the tide, an insights report drawn from more than 1,000 written contributions by health professionals in over 70 countries, and opened a peer learning course built entirely from those accounts. This video is the hour in which they handed both back to the people who wrote them.
A retired director of nursing in Nigeria remembers the mother who had no money, bought two tablets for her feverish child, watched the fever fall, and stopped. Her point lands hard: half a course of treatment breeds the resistance that took chloroquine away. A doctor in another Nigerian state then explains that almost every patient who reaches him with fever has already been treated somewhere else, without a single test.
What you are watching
Health workers answered written questions about malaria for weeks before this event. The Foundation coded those answers into eight themes, then spent this hour reading the findings back and asking contributors to test them against their own week at work. Facilitators refuse general statements on air and ask for the exact thing that happened, which is why the material stays concrete.
Who speaks
Nurses, physicians, pharmacists, laboratory scientists, a health journalist, county and district health promotion leads, and community programme managers, speaking from Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ghana, Kenya, India, Sri Lanka, Somalia and Zimbabwe. They earned their place by answering the pre-event questions, not by rank.
What happens
- Contributors answer one question at a time: how malaria hit their own family, what a patient had already swallowed before reaching them, and where the register contradicted their own eyes.
- A facilitator opens the report on screen and then skips the scrolling. She types a question about malaria prevention in Ghana in plain language, and an artificial intelligence interface answers from the evidence and offers the quotes behind it. You can interrogate the same 1,000 accounts in minutes instead of reading a long document.
- The Foundation announces the malaria course and opens enrolment during the broadcast, then walks through account creation and names the two mistakes that lock most people out.
- Hands stay raised well past the scheduled close. The facilitators keep the room open for another 30 minutes rather than cut anyone off, and the last speakers turn out to be some of the sharpest.
Reasons to watch
- A county health promotion lead compared antimalarial drugs leaving the pharmacy against tests performed in the laboratory, found that the two numbers do not match, and describes what she did next. If you supervise clinicians, she just handed you an audit you can run this month.
- A parasitologist reports that in one post-campaign study roughly 44 percent of participants gained nothing from indoor residual spraying, mostly because families refused to let strangers into their bedrooms. If you plan campaigns, your problem may sit weeks before the spray teams arrive.
- Contributors describe families turning bed nets into fishing gear and fencing, and the facilitators refuse the easy judgement, asking what makes a net worth more as a fishing net than as protection.
- One contributor watched mosquitoes bite at hours and in places the local playbook does not expect. If your own surveillance calendar assumes night-time biting, that sentence should worry you.
- A health journalist walks through a country where reported malaria deaths jumped between two consecutive years, then explains why the real figure is almost certainly higher in communities that turn health workers away at the gate.
- The facilitators say out loud what a single experience can and cannot prove, and tell you to pair it with your routine data. Very few launch events limit their own claims in public.
Resources and access
- Turning the tide, the insights report, free to download, with the chat interface for asking it your own questions.
- Eight practical insights to end malaria, if you want the findings before you watch.
- Malaria: Turning the tide, learn from real world health worker experience, open to anyone whose life or work malaria touches. No fee, certification on completion.
- Malaria: New tools to turn the tide, for colleagues going further on new prevention and treatment tools.
- What frontline health workers say about malaria, and why it matters.
The Foundation covers the cost of participation, so the courses carry no fee. You answer questions about your own work, three colleagues read what you wrote and reply, and the Foundation publishes what the network learns. Speaking slots go to people who contributed in advance.
Tell us in one comment what your last feverish patient had already taken before they reached you. Share this with one colleague behind a drug shop counter, because that is where most first treatments happen.