Sentences with phrase «bed nets»

Second, mass free distribution of bed nets, medicines, and vaccines can be highly effective and properly managed.

If you're sleeping outdoors, use bed nets to protect against mosquitoes.

If you went to bed net long the stock market, there's a pretty good chance you're going to wake up deep in a hole.

I wonder how many bed nets could have been made instead?

Yes, the military is more important than sending bed nets to other countries!

Although malaria is a serious problem, when resources are scarce, food was the first priority — so bed nets were often used to protect food sources instead of people.

Through ACT: S, college students can host events to raise awareness and funds for bed nets that keep people from being bitten and infected with malaria.

Due to increased funding, more children are sleeping under insecticide - treated bed nets in sub-Saharan Africa.

The most important thing would be to support vaccination with other measures that curb transmission, such as bed nets for malaria.

Anopheles mosquitoes only bite between dusk and dawn, so the use of bed nets in areas where malaria is endemic have long been a method to reduce the opportunity for mosquitoes to transmit malaria.

And they are the only insecticides that can be used on bed nets.

Fortunately, deaths due to falciparum malaria in the tropics, particularly Tropical Africa, have declined over the past two decades as progress has been made in prevention of infections with impregnated bed nets and the introduction of new antimalarial drugs, particularly the artemesinins.

Aging nets may also be the reason that Rwanda, another front - runner in terms of bed net coverage, saw an upswing late in 2008 and 2009, after a period of dramatic success.

But over the past decade, many tropical countries have drastically scaled up mosquito control by spraying indoors and providing bed nets impregnated with pyrethroids.

We've finally begun beating back a disease that's been called «one of the world's most intractable human afflictions» — and the simple bed net is one of the key reasons for this success.

«Children are depending on malaria bed nets,» she said referring to the mosquito netting the US government provides to some developing countries to help stave off malaria.

As a result, an estimated 42 % of African households owned at least one insecticide - treated bed net by mid-2010; about 35 % of children were estimated to sleep under one.

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Because the data don't go beyond 2009, WHO has little or no evidence of progress in 31 other African countries, including big ones like Nigeria and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where bed nets have only recently been introduced on a large scale.

Insecticide - treated bed nets resulted in the largest reduction, accounting for 68 % of the cases prevented, according to the Nature study.

«They're talking about cutting bed nets for malaria and leaving every piece of military spending untouched,» said the Rev. Jim Wallis, who leads the Christian group Sojourners, referring to Republican spending proposals for the rest of this year.

The government should be more concerned about military equipment than bed nets because providing for defense I emphasize defense) of the people of the US against those who would threaten our lives, liberty or property with force is one of it's primary roles; being a charity is not.

In areas where malaria is a threat, 713 million people need bed nets to prevent infection.

But when the massive rollout of insecticide - treated bed nets began in Africa in the early 2000s — more than a billion have been distributed — little thought was given to resistance, says Maureen Coetzee, director of the Wits Research Institute for Malaria at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Pyrethroids have also played a role in the fight against Aedes aegypti, the main mosquito transmitting the yellow fever, dengue, and Zika viruses, even though bed nets are less effective against A. aegypti because it predominantly bites people outdoors and during the day.

They found that the logistics of mass free distribution were indeed feasible, that community uptake was high, and that distributed bed nets were indeed in the households in high percentages upon spot checks of the recipient communities a few months after the mass distribution.

But there's an international push for a multi-front war on malaria, ranging from cheap and effective bed netting to the development of a vaccine.

One group received enough bed nets to cover every sleeping space, and the nets were treated with the insecticide permethrin over the next 2 years.

Malaria and bed nets fact sheet Roll Back Malaria Information on malaria from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

This will be achieved by dispensing more bed nets and anti-malarial drugs, deploying more trained birth attendants, and supplying new vaccines to combat lung disease, and diarrhoea caused by rotaviruses.

The widespread use of insecticide - treated bed nets eventually led to a rise in resistance to pyretheroids by the Anopheles mosquito.

But the Aedes mosquitoes bite during the day, making bed nets ineffective and insecticide spraying campaigns more critical to their control.

WHO recommendation for game - changing mosquito net; First bed net to contain non-pyrethroid chemistry

Her dissertation, «Nothing but Nets: The History of Insecticide - Treated Nets in Africa, 1980s - Present,» examines how and why insecticide - treated bed nets became a cornerstone of malaria control in the 21st century, as well as the role of African scientists, health workers, health officials, and populations played in the construction of this biomedical, global health technology.

«WHO is going to be thinking about where and how to deploy the vaccine versus spending money on other malaria preventative systems like bed nets and insecticides — things we know are effective.

Richard is also President and Chairman of End Malaria Now, a non-profit organization that helps raise life - saving bed nets for African families to end the spread of malaria; he continues to help rebuild a continent stricken with malaria - the Number One killer disease of children in Africa.

The Ridgeline is also available with a wide variety of accessories, including adjustable crossbars, a cargo bed net, and a tri-fold hard tonneau cover.

The air - con cooled huts are modest but comfortable with decent beds netted to add to the romance and keep the mozzies at bay.

Garden Double Room has en suite bathroom, air - conditioning bed net and ceiling fan.

At the very least, they hope the technology can be applied to create longer - lasting insecticide - laden bed nets.

Here's the portion of that commentary that reminds us of «The Charge»: «Beginning in the 1970s, regulators around the world followed Rachel Carson's suggestion that lawmakers ban the pesticide DDT, once used to control malaria, because they figured bed nets and other measures were enough.

While climate change may increase the occurrence of malaria, the effect can be almost completely offset by adopting control strategies such as bed netting, spraying and anti-malarial drugs, according to a paper published in the journal Nature.