In a short film to be shown during the Sport Relief Night of TV on BBC One tonight, Cheryl will draw attention to the crippling epidemic via footage shot in a hospital in eastern Uganda, to raise money to help save lives.
The Girls Aloud singer said in a statement: “When I climbed Kilimanjaro for Comic Relief five years ago it was honestly one of the hardest things I’ve ever done.
"The motivation lay in knowing it could help in eradicating malaria and ultimately saving lives by providing mosquito nets.
"I didn’t for one minute think that only a year later I would get malaria myself and become so ill that at one point I was given 24 hours to live.
"It was the scariest thing you could ever imagine for me and for my friends and family.
"The pain I felt and went through, it’s what so many people go through, all because they don’t have a mosquito net which could save their life.
"I was lucky, I had the best care I could get. Some people are not so lucky. A £5 mosquito net could keep a child safe and really does help."
Malaria is a preventable disease, but thousands of adults and children die from it globally due to a lack of medical supplies and basic resources like mosquito nets.
"I’ve decided to speak out about this again now because having experienced it, it’s obviously very close to my heart and I want people to know how easy it is to help. Please watch the TV show tonight and donate what you can.”
Will you be donating to Sport Relief 2014 tonight?