It's working with a spectrum of other organizations to raise awareness and funds for bed nets.
Beginning around 2005, the foundation began experimenting with programs providing the most basic solution--bed nets laced with insecticide.
The government is distributing bed nets, draining mosquito breeding grounds and spraying huts with DDT to kill mosquitos.
They calculate that within four years this method could even replace insecticide-treated bed nets as a way of controlling mosquitoes.
Not to be outdone, Winfrey said in a tweet Friday morning that she would donate 20, 000 mosquito bed nets to charity.
But it provides basic services like generic antibiotics, rehydration fluids for diarrhea, malaria medicines, insecticide-treated bed nets and, beginning soon, AIDS drugs.
This initiative provides insecticide-treated bed nets, indoor spraying, and life-saving anti-malaria medications.
Now that company employs 7, 000 individuals now, mostly low-income women, making 20 million bed nets per year that provides protection to 40 million Africans.
And so when there was this opportunity with long-lasting bed nets, we knew that some of the local bed-net manufacturers might not make it.
Another powerful in the campaign against malaria is insecticide-laden bed nets.
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There are alternatives, such as bed nets and prophylactic drugs, but limitations of cost, user acceptance and infrastructure mean that they offer no easy fix.
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Medicines treat the disease and bed nets and insecticides prevent it.
AIDS. But it also accounts for more than half of donor spending on malaria (on such things as insecticide-treated bed nets) and two-thirds of that on tuberculosis.
Experience with vaccines, insecticide-treated bed nets, malaria medicines and HIV treatments shows clearly that it is possible to greatly expand the scale and accessibility of these life-saving interventions.
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According to Glenn Denning, of the Millennium Project's Nairobi office, the incidence of malaria in Sauri has dropped by at least 50% since the distribution of free bed nets.
He also says on Twitter he will donate 10, 000 mosquito bed nets to charity for World Malaria Day in late April if he beats CNN, and 1, 000 if he loses.
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"American Idol" host Ryan Seacrest, another popular Twitter user, also agreed Friday to make a donation of mosquito bed nets, which help prevent the biting insects from spreading malaria in tropical countries.
Kutcher had challenged CNN to the Twitter race, saying he would donate 10, 000 mosquito bed nets to charity for World Malaria Day in late April if he beat CNN, and 1, 000 if he lost.
Steven Phillips of Exxon Mobil (a board member of Roll Back Malaria) notes that his oil firm makes the pesticide used in bed nets woven in Tanzania and its filling stations could hand them out.
"We'd like to thank every one of our followers for helping CNN reach the 1 million mark, and we are delighted to raise our donation to 10, 000 bed nets for World Malaria Day in recognition of them, " Martin said.
These efforts are making a difference: In less than a decade, we have sent more than 6 million anti-malaria bed nets to Africa, helped to reduce global polio cases by 99% and helped to decrease measles mortality by 74% worldwide.
Using these variables, it can then predict the result of deploying various drugs, the likely success of methods such as insecticide-covered bed nets that are used to block transmission of the disease, and the probable impact of a vaccine, if and when one becomes available.
Foundation delivers lifesaving vaccines and insecticide-treated bed nets to children, harnesses mobile technologies to improve maternal and child health, provides opportunities for women to voluntarily plan their families, empowers girls to build the future they want and provides clean cooking stoves that are safe and healthy for families and the environment.
So unlike the traditional bed nets that were on the market--polyester-based and would fall apart after three or four months, had to be dipped--this would enable people to buy a bed net that would last for five years, never have to dip it in insecticide and would actually kill the bugs on contact.
What the billions afflicted by malaria in the world today need is access to treatment and better prevention through bed-nets and indoor spraying.
Partnerships with national governments and development partners, including, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, the World Bank Booster Program for Malaria Control, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and the UN Envoy for Malaria, which has mobilized thousands of partners with the goal of reaching the universal coverage of long lasting insecticide treated bed-nets by the end of this year, have made these successes possible.
The 750kg (1, 650lb) unexploded World War II (WWII) weapon was placed on the sea bed after it was caught in the nets of a fishing boat earlier in the week.
So we worked with Sumitomo, UNICEF and helped find who we thought was the most extraordinary bed-net manufacturer with the traditional nets and financed the technology transfer and then provided a lot of management assistance on the side.
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