Sentences with phrase «bed nets in»

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

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.

As far as I know, there's not a lot of call for bed nets in the US.

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In fact, according to Robert Emmons, a psychology professor and one of world's leading scientific experts on gratitude, just jotting down a few reasons to feel thankful before bed could net you an extra half hour of quality shut eye.

An analysis published Sep. 16 in the journal Nature noted that insecticide - treated bed nets, insecticides sprayed on indoor surfaces, and prompt treatment with combination drug therapy collectively helped reduce the spread of malaria throughout a large swath of sub-Saharan Africa.

That encouraging stat also means that many, many children still don't sleep under a bed net or in a house treated with insecticide, according to the WHO.

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

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.

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

The Global Fund, underway in more than 140 countries, has delivered 104 million insecticide treated bed nets and 108 million highly effective doses of malaria medicines, and has also protected millions of homes through indoor spraying.

In Ethiopia, deaths were cut in half after more than 20 million bed nets were delivered, covering those most at risk — particularly women and childreIn Ethiopia, deaths were cut in half after more than 20 million bed nets were delivered, covering those most at risk — particularly women and childrein half after more than 20 million bed nets were delivered, covering those most at risk — particularly women and children.

The worst we've had is an ant infestation in one of our garden beds which was easy to fix and the bunnies chewed through our netting around the other bed which was also easily fixed.

As every chile gardener knows, capsicum varieties tend to cross-pollinate vigorously, and a typical way to gain pure seeds is to keep the pepper plants in separate greenhouses or cover entire plants or beds with tight nets.

The visitors, 1 - 0 up from the first game in Germany, looked to have put the tie to bed when Bruma netted the vital away goal within two minutes.

However, he put this statistic to bed by netting a wonderful opener in the League Cup final, where he lobbed the ball over David Ospina to score.

Mauricio Pellegrino's side had plenty of chances to put the game to bed in the first period, but their inability to take their opportunities came on to haunt them as Olivier Giroud netted a late leveller.

Also bring a mosquito net for over a bassinet or a screened in travel bed for babies.

Britain has purchased 20 million bed nets to protect against Malaria in Africa, Gordon Brown has said.

Peter Chernin, chairman of Malaria No More, said: «I applaud the United Kingdom's commitment to provide bed nets to Africans at risk of malaria and salute Gordon Brown's bold leadership in the fight against this treatable and preventable disease.

In a Nature paper last year, a group led by Simon Hay at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom estimated that between 2000 and 2015, some 633 million malaria deaths were averted, with 68 % of that decline due to insecticide - treated bed nets and 10 % to IRIn a Nature paper last year, a group led by Simon Hay at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom estimated that between 2000 and 2015, some 633 million malaria deaths were averted, with 68 % of that decline due to insecticide - treated bed nets and 10 % to IRin the United Kingdom estimated that between 2000 and 2015, some 633 million malaria deaths were averted, with 68 % of that decline due to insecticide - treated bed nets and 10 % to IRS.

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.

Any insecticide used in a bed net «has to be safe enough that a child can put it in their mouth,» says Ranson, and only pyrethroids fit the bill.

Any candidates for bed nets will have to pass other demanding tests: In addition to being safe, they will have to survive at least 20 washes and perform well for 3 years.

This is one of those interesting cases in which both experiments and real life have now provided evidence to resolve this debate convincingly: the case for mass free distribution of bed nets has proved to be stunningly powerful.

The results: even a small charge for bed nets led to a tremendous drop in their adoption.

«Fish that built cocoons before tucking in to bed at night were protected, much like humans putting on a mosquito net,» says Grutter.

As a result, after many years in which bed net coverage was extremely low, it is now soaring, and malaria cases are falling sharply in those places in Africa where mass bed net distribution is being deployed.

One of the reasons for the more aggressive stance is President Bush's Malaria Initiative, launched in 2005 after Congress reproved USAID for spending the lion's share of its budget on operational costs — and less than 8 percent on the insecticides, bed nets, and medicines that would actually save lives.

Public health measures in Africa such as insecticide - treated bed nets and insecticide - spraying have helped reduce the numbers of malaria cases since 2000, but many mosquitoes have evolved resistance to insecticides.

«Having an accurate overview of how different regions of countries are connected by human movement aids effective disease control planning and helps target resources, such as treated bed nets or community health workers, in the right places.

Despite the positive impact of medication, indoor spraying with insecticides and the use of insecticide bed - nets, around 429,000 people died from malaria in 2015, mostly in Africa, according to the World Health Organisation's World Malaria Report.

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.

So if, for example, public health officials are in a community handing out bed nets, it could make sense to also treat for schistosomiasis because of the down - the - road benefit of reducing the risk of malaria.»

«We can now make a blanket recommendation: Everywhere there is malaria, you should use treated bed nets,» says Christian Lengeler of the Swiss Tropical Institute in Basel.

The plan, to be carried out by national malaria - control agencies in Cambodia and Thailand with support from various research institutes, includes rapid and widespread treatment with ACTs, improved mosquito control, the distribution of long - lasting insecticide - impregnated bed nets, a ban on monotherapies in Cambodia (they are already rare in Thailand), and an information campaign.

In São Tomé and Príncipe, a tiny two - island island nation off the West African coast, bed net coverage was among the highest in Africa as early as 2007, and the majority of the population was also protected using indoor spraying between 2005 and 200In São Tomé and Príncipe, a tiny two - island island nation off the West African coast, bed net coverage was among the highest in Africa as early as 2007, and the majority of the population was also protected using indoor spraying between 2005 and 200in Africa as early as 2007, and the majority of the population was also protected using indoor spraying between 2005 and 2007.

The reasons aren't quite clear; in Luapula Province, bed net coverage declined, but it remained high in Eastern Province, says WHO's Richard Cibulskis, the report's main author; perhaps the fact that the nets are too old now is the problem, he says.

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.

Previous studies — held in Ghana, The Gambia, Burkina Faso, and coastal Kenya — had shown that bed nets could save the lives of children, malaria's main victims.

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.

In 20 villages, houses are being equipped with eave tubes, while villagers receive insecticide - treated bed nets; 20 other villages get only bed nets.

In spite of the bed nets beneath which most of the houses» occupants slept, many mosquitoes had taken blood meals during the night.

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

More than a decade ago, bed nets treated with pyretheroids — a class of pesticides that includes deltamethrin — were rolled out in Africa in a big way to fight malaria.

Interbreeding of two malaria mosquito species in the West African country of Mali has resulted in a «super mosquito» hybrid that's resistant to insecticide - treated bed nets.

«Furthermore, numerous field studies have shown that even untreated bed nets provide a considerable overall benefit to non-users 2, because while their share of remaining biting burden is increased, the overall number of infectious mosquitoes in the population is dramatically reduced3, 4.

Quantifying the impact of decay in bed - net efficacy on malaria transmission.

Conducting seminal intervention trials against malaria that have fed directly into national and international policy which has contributed to the prevention of millions of deaths; these include trials of impregnated bed nets, the prevention of malaria in pregnant women, interventions to improve community based treatment and interventions to increase access to safe effective drugs.

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 technolNets: 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 technolNets 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 technolnets 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.