Actress Alexandra Daddario (2017’s Baywatch) is using her platform to follow in the footsteps of the ever-iconic Elizabeth Taylor. She's a champion for The Elizabeth Taylor Aids Foundation's new partnership with the UN Foundation’s Nothing But Nets campaign, and she recently traveled to Malawi to see the organizations' handiwork providing testing and treatment for HIV and malaria first-hand.
Read Article Actress Alexandra Daddario (2017’s Baywatch) is using her platform to follow in the footsteps of the ever-iconic Elizabeth Taylor. She's a champion for The Elizabeth Taylor Aids Foundation's new partnership with the UN Foundation’s Nothing But Nets campaign, and she recently traveled to Malawi to see the organizations' handiwork providing testing and treatment for HIV and malaria first-hand.
Read Article What was a “life-changing experience” for Nia Long and her son was a life-saving effort for several people in Tanzania.
Read Article About seven years ago, Simon Estes, like many others, was unaware of the devastation malaria has caused in Africa. But word of the disease reached the opera star’s ears, and on Monday, the United Nations Foundation’s Nothing But Nets campaign honored him with its Lifetime Impact Award for his work fighting against the mosquito-transmitted illness.
Read Article TV broadcaster, athlete, and malaria survivor Charlie Webster attended the Nothing But Nets Leadership Summit and spoke on Capitol Hill recounting her powerful story of survival for the first time in front of malaria advocates and members of Congress. Webster contracted malaria during the Rio Olympics last summer, went into a coma, and miraculously recovered weeks later. She still deals with the effects of this deadly disease that claims more than 438,000 lives every year – primarily children under age five. At the Nothing But Nets Leadership Summit, Webster addressed over 125 advocates from 29 states, who have convened for World Malaria Day to meet with their elected leaders about the President’s proposed cuts to life-saving global malaria programs.
Read Article After a series of conversations with indie VR shops in recent weeks, it seems safe to say that many of them are suffering from “feast or famine” syndrome when it comes to work. Often a brand or content owner will come to them with a great idea and a tight deadline, expect them to execute on a VR experience, pay them, and then disappear for months — if they ever come back at all.
Read Article Sports presenter Charlie Webster went for a spa day with her mum recently, a welcome respite for both of them after the most traumatic eight months of their lives. Even in the most tranquil of surroundings, however, there was a reminder of how much Charlie’s life has changed. As she settled down on the treatment bed to have a supposedly relaxing facial, she suffered a terrifying panic attack, the latest in a spate of them.
Read Article Despite progress toward preventing the spread of malaria, the world is moving too slowly toward elimination of the disease, which still claims hundreds of thousands of lives each year, the World Health Organization said Tuesday.
On the positive side, children and pregnant women in sub-Saharan Africa have greater access to tools that stop the transmission of malaria, according to the annual World Malaria Report. Diagnostic testing for children and preventive treatment for pregnant women has risen steeply across the region over the last five years, and the use of nets treated with insecticide has expanded rapidly.
“The Flash” begins its third season on the CW this month, with Tom Cavanagh playing multiple versions of his character, thanks to the series’ presentation of time-travel and alternate universes. Cavanagh spoke recently with Variety about the series, his co-workers and his favorite charity.
Read Article The United Nation Foundation has worked on many worthwhile products, but one of their newest is a virtual reality initiative that it is undertaking as part of its ongoing efforts to eradicate malaria.
Read Article© NOTHING BUT NETS 2017 • SAVE LIVES. DEFEAT MALARIA
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