*Each year, malaria afflicts approximately a half-billion people (roughly the population of the United States, Canada, and Mexico combined).
*Malaria kills more than a million people per year; 90 percent of those who die are African children.
*Every 30 seconds an Africa a child dies of malaria.
*Malaria incapacitates people, keeping countries poor. In addition to the health burden, malaria illness and death cost Africa about $12 billion per year.
It only costs $10 to buy a net to protect individuals from malaria and get it distributed!
http://www.nothingbutnets.net/
Websites and Books
- Ashoka: www.ashoka.org
- Accion International: www.accion.org
- Invisible Children: http://www.invisiblechildren.com/theMovement/
- Center for Global Development: http://www.cgdev.org/
- Women for Women International www.womenforwomen.org
- Food for the Hungry www.fh.org
1 comments:
It looks like HHS is working on a solution to the Malaria problem too. HHS NHI News Post
I like the idea of buying nets, but malaria is caused by mosquitoes right? And mosquitoes don't only bite at night when you are sleeping under your net. So, would nets really help? I don't know -I'm just asking.
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