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Warriors guard Stephen Curry is scheduled to speak at the White House on Wednesday in support of the fight against malaria and could meet with President Obama.
Read ArticleI sat down with entrepreneur and the brains behind Parachute, Ariel Kaye. Her company makes a range of gorgeous sheets and home decor, all made in Italy - and made without any chemicals or synthetic materials. A huge part of the Parachute business is giving back. For each sheet set you buy, they donate a mosquito nest through Nothing But Nets.
Read ArticleOK, all you Warriors-come-lately San Francisco fans, the true-blue believers are calling you out. They’re sick and tired of you phenomenon rooters. After all, they’ve been following the Bay Area’s hottest must-watch team forever — or at least the last two months.
Read ArticleLooking over the audience at the Junior Chamber International (JCI) World Congress this past weekend in Leipzig, Germany, brought back fond memories of my experiences at the 2004 Olympics. It reminded me of the opening ceremonies, where the beauty and diversity that exists in our world was highlighted by the amazing culmination of countries, cultures, ages and races.
Read ArticleAfrica is facing the worst Ebola outbreak in history and it's arrival in America has prompted many people to finally take notice of the deadly disease.
Read ArticleFriday marks World Malaria Day, an annual awareness campaign to shed light on the preventable and curable disease that still kills hundreds of thousands every year. This year's World Malaria Day continues the theme "Invest in the future, defeat malaria," calling attention to the many efforts to end all malaria-related deaths by 2015.
Read ArticleDid you know that a child dies from malaria every 60 seconds? This is not only unacceptbale in this day and age, it is also preventable with access to the right equipment and medication.
Read ArticleWhen I was a child in the 1980s, my parents worried when I had a fever, but they always knew I would recover from it. Due to the successful efforts of the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) to eliminate malaria in the U.S. after WWII, and prevent its reintroduction by monitoring and treating cases brought in by travelers, they never had to worry that this disease could claim my life.
Read ArticleAnother defining aspect of our business is our partnership with Nothing But Nets. From inception, creating a socially responsible business was imperative to me. Parachute delivers great sleep for our customers, and in turn, provides safe sleep to families in Africa, by sending life-saving malaria nets to those in need. Every 60 seconds a child dies from malaria – we are thrilled to be making a positive impact to change that staggering statistic.
Read ArticleThe news out of the White House Monday mainly revolved around the annual White House Easter Egg Roll, which took place on the South Lawn all morning. And while there was a lot of chatter about a life-size Easter Bunny (played by a White House staffer) and some sightings of the first dogs, Sunny and Bo, the weirdest “animal” in attendance was a giant mosquito.
“On the court was a man dressed as a mosquito,” pointed out po