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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.
A World Malaria Day event in Lamu, Kenya, in 2011. World Malaria Day was established in May 2007 by the 60th session of the World Health Assembly, [5] WHO's decision-making body.
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 ...
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 ...
The Malaria Atlas Project (MAP) is a nonprofit academic group led by Peter Gething, Kerry M Stokes Chair in Child Health, at the Telethon Kids Institute, Perth, Western Australia. The group is funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation , with previous funding also coming from the Medical Research Council and the Wellcome Trust .
The Global Fund’s investments have reduced deaths from HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria by 61% since 2002, saving 65 million lives. [27] Recent efforts include lowering the cost of key treatments for drug-resistant TB by 55% and first-line HIV medications by 25%, while introducing a more effective insecticide-treated mosquito net. [28]
Malaria Consortium's parasite control and prevention strategy includes vector control through long lasting insecticidal nets distribution, indoor residual spraying, education, and data surveillance. Malaria Consortium is for instance leading the Beyond Garki Project, an initiative to collect epidemiological data on the evolution of malaria. [4]