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.
But, more than a decade later, it turns out that quite a few countries severely affected by malaria still maintain tariffs on the importation of mosquito nets and other malaria-fighting products and drugs.
The US, Tanzania and the Global Fund to fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria will distribute the nets.
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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Giant clinical trials in several African countries in the '90s found the nets reduced malaria cases by 60% and overall child mortality by nearly 20%, better than anyone had expected.
Nothing but Nets raises money for mosquito nets to prevent malaria in Africa.
"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.
The vaccine is designed to help complement existing malaria control measures, like mosquito nets, in Africa.
Another powerful in the campaign against malaria is insecticide-laden bed nets.
But it provides basic services like generic antibiotics, rehydration fluids for diarrhea, malaria medicines, insecticide-treated bed nets and, beginning soon, AIDS drugs.
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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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.
Pepe told CNN pools of standing water are forming around water points outside schools, increasing the risk of malaria, especially for people who lost mosquito nets during the flooding and those who are now forced to sleep outside.
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.
"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.
This initiative provides insecticide-treated bed nets, indoor spraying, and life-saving anti-malaria medications.
Indeed, one of the best interventions we can do, in addition to replacing worn out nets, is to ensure that all fevers are tested for malaria.
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.
What the billions afflicted by malaria in the world today need is access to treatment and better prevention through bed-nets and indoor spraying.
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.
Thus, when we say that 80 per cent of African population at risk of malaria has access to LLINs, we must not just sit back on our laurels but recognize that these nets do not last more than a few years and will need replacing.
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