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United to Beat Malaria, previously known as Nothing But Nets until 2022, [1] [2] is a global, grassroots campaign of the United Nations Foundation to raise awareness and funding to fight malaria. [3] The campaign aims to prevent malaria infections and deaths by providing malaria education, insecticide-treated bed nets, anti-malarial drugs ...
Imagine No Malaria (INM) is a comprehensive anti-malaria campaign run by The United Methodist Church. [1]The ministry mission statement is: Imagine No Malaria is an extraordinary effort of the people of the United Methodist Church, putting faith into action to end preventable deaths by malaria in Africa, especially the death of a child or a mother.
PMI is estimated to have prevented 185 million malaria cases and nearly 1 million deaths between 2005 and 2017. [9] Globally, malaria mortality fell by more than 60% between 2000 and 2015. The presence of a PMI program in a country has also been associated with a significant reduction in all-cause under-5 child mortality. [10]
One X One founder Joey Adler and Millennium Promise Conference founder Daniel Germain each gave $150,000 to the campaign at the conference. [5] The first order for 33,000 bed nets was made on March 28, 2007. [6] By December 2011, Spread the Net achieved its founding goal; 500,000 nets distributed to pregnant women and children in Liberia and ...
Mosquito nets have found a whole slew of alternative uses from fences that keep livestock contained, rope, soccer nets, and even soccer balls. Cases of malaria are increasing each year and ...
In 1955, WHO launched the Global Malaria Eradication Program. Support waned, and the program was suspended in 1969. [ 62 ] Since 2000, support for eradication has increased, although some actors in the global health community (including voices within the WHO) thought that eradication as goal was premature and that setting strict deadlines for ...
The National Malaria Control Program from Brazil won the overall prize as the 2015 Malaria Champion of the Americas. The 2016 Malaria Day in the Americas forum was held on November 3, 2016 at the PAHO/WHO Headquarters in Washington, DC and featured videos, presentations, and discussions around the theme "End Malaria for Good."
Malaria No More was established in December 2006 by business leaders looking to apply private sector expertise and entrepreneurial methods to tackling malaria. [citation needed] In 2008, it was one of six charities supported by the TV show American Idol, as part of its "Idol Gives Back" campaign. [2]