Malaria, a disease that is carried by a certain type of female mosquito, is a prevalent killer in sections of Africa. Elizabeth Gore of Nothing But Nets discusses how, for $10.00, a mosquito net can save lives.
Read ArticleDanish and U.S. researchers said on Tuesday they have found a way to way to attack malaria by knocking out a gene that helps malaria parasites reproduce inside mosquitoes.
Read ArticleWhen four-year-old Alice Were suddenly developed a fever, her mother Miriam took her to the local medicine woman close to her house in Kangemi, a poor, cramped settlement on the outskirts of the Kenyan capital, Nairobi. Two days later, Alice was unconscious. Her frantic mother rushed to hospital with the child in her arms. But it was too late. Alice died of malaria.
Read ArticleWhen TyAnn Caldwell read a magazine article about children dying from malaria in Africa, she wanted to do her part to help prevent the spread of the disease. TyAnn, a fifth-grader at Jackson Elementary School, and her friend Kate Overton started brainstorming about what they could do.
Read ArticleBy recent standards, the General Conference of the United Methodist Church that concluded Friday was a relatively tame affair. Even the protests held this week were brief and restrained, and unlike in previous years, there were no arrests or disruptions of business.
Read ArticleTHUMBS UP to 7-year-old Downingtown first-grader Katherine Commale, who helped raise more than $40,000 for Nothing But Nets to buy and send insecticide-treated bed nets to malaria-affected nations in Africa. Katherine spearheaded the effort through the Hopewell United Methodist Church, the United Nations Foundation, the NBA, and other groups.
Read ArticleAs it commemorates World Malaria Day, The United Methodist Church announced today it will receive a $5 million grant from the United Nations Foundation, with support from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, to help eliminate malaria and other diseases of poverty.
Read ArticleAs the inaugural World Malaria Day approaches on Friday, April 25th, 2008, MLS W.O.R.K.S., the League's community outreach program is teaming up with the UN Foundation's Nothing But Nets campaign to raise money to purchase long-lasting insecticide-treated bed nets. Malaria is the leading killer of children in Africa and every 30 seconds a child dies from this devastating disease. With a simple bed net - - costing only $10 dollars, a child's life can be saved.
Read ArticleThe United Nations has teamed up with religious, business and sports leaders in a new effort to send insecticide-treated bed nets to Africa to prevent millions of deaths from the disease, ahead of the first-ever World Malaria Day on Friday.
Read ArticleThe Chicago Sky is teaming up with the UN Foundation\'s Nothing But Nets to help cover an entire continent with long-lasting insecticide-treated bed nets. Nothing But Nets is a global, grassroots campaign to prevent malaria and save lives by sending bed nets to children in Africa.
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