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Category Archives: Malaria
Have a blog? Want to do some good?
Have a blog? Want to do some good? Then the kids in Sub-Sahara Africa need you! At the moment, one child somewhere in the world dies of malaria every 30 seconds! It infects 350-500 million people each year, killing 1 million, mostly children in Sub-Sahara Africa, where malaria accounts for about one in five of [...]
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Join us UNDER COVER and save a child’s life!
Did you know that every 30 seconds a child dies of malaria? Well now you can join the UNDER COVER movement and be part of the solution! UNICEF wants every child at risk of getting malaria to sleep safely UNDER COVER of a life-saving malaria net. At just $11 each, insecticide-treated malaria nets protect children [...]
Now it’s your turn to tell me what YOU think!
Malaria was the last area of UNICEF’s work that we looked at on our Solomon Islands visit. Malaria is abig problem in the SI, especially in areas where there is stagnant water and mangrove swamps. The solution is malaria nets. When children and their families sleep under a net they are protected. We spoke with [...]
Blogging from the Solomons!
UNICEF NZ Executive Director, Dennis McKinlay, is visiting the Solomon Islands next week to see for himself the impact of UNICEF’s work. “I am very much looking forward to returning to the Solomon Islands on Tuesday to see further progress on our reconstruction work since my last visit in September 2008. When I was there [...]
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Magnotes and Malaria Nets