Nothing but Nets -
Saving Lives by Preventing Malaria
Nothing But Nets is
a grassroots campaign to save lives by preventing
malaria, a
leading killer of children in Africa. The UN Foundation has
partnered with groups as diverse as National
Basketball Association’s
NBA Cares, The People of the United Methodist
Church and Sports
Illustrated to bring Nothing But Nets to the American
public.
Malaria is Both Preventable and Treatable
Malaria is both a
preventable and treatable disease. It can be prevented
by giving
families and individuals insecticide-treated bed nets to sleep
under
and taking steps to kill mosquitoes where they breed and when they
enter houses to feed at night. At the same time, anti-malarial drugs
such
as artemisinin and other combination therapies that are widely
available
can treat malaria before it becomes deadly.
Malaria has
been brought under control and even eliminated in many parts
of Asia,
Europe, and the Americas. Yet in Africa, with increasing drug
resistance and struggling health systems, malaria infections have
actually
increased during the last three decades.
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The West Chester United Methodist Church congregation has
given over
100 nets in 2007.
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Buzzkill Facts
Each year, malaria afflicts approximately a
half-billion people (roughly the population of the
United States, Canada,
and Mexico combined).
Malaria kills more than a million people per
year;
90 percent of those who die are African children.
Every 30 seconds in Africa a child dies of
malaria.
Malaria incapacitates people, keeping countries
poor. In addition to the health burden, malaria
illness and death cost
Africa about $12 billion
per year.
Submitted by Kevin Starace on 2007-11-11 14:57.
I just got back from southern and eastern Chad, where
I was helping
distribute the 40,000 bed nets that you
purchased. These nets—raised
in our four week
urgent appeal this summer—are covering thousands of
refugees and internally displaced people, forced from
their homes into
temporary camps from the ongoing
crisis in Darfur. Source:www.nothingbutnets.net
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