Sentences with phrase «malaria bed nets»

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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.

«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.

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

Part of this success is due to President George W. Bush's President's Malaria Initiative, which helped ensure that more than 1 million bed nets were distributed across the country, and leadership from the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria.

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.

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 dMalaria 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 dmalaria and salute Gordon Brown's bold leadership in the fight against this treatable and preventable disease.

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.

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 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.

The Roll Back Malaria Partnership has now embarked on a coordinated effort to ensure comprehensive malaria control throughout Africa that includes not only anti-malaria bed nets but also medicines, rapid diagnostic tests and community health workers trained to deliver such vital interveMalaria Partnership has now embarked on a coordinated effort to ensure comprehensive malaria control throughout Africa that includes not only anti-malaria bed nets but also medicines, rapid diagnostic tests and community health workers trained to deliver such vital intervemalaria control throughout Africa that includes not only anti-malaria bed nets but also medicines, rapid diagnostic tests and community health workers trained to deliver such vital intervemalaria bed nets but also medicines, rapid diagnostic tests and community health workers trained to deliver such vital interventions.

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.

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.

But 25 percent of the malaria infections among children could be eradicated by distributing new insecticide - treated bed nets that would cost $ 7 apiece.

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.

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 malaria in 2015, mostly in Africa, according to the World Health Organisation's World Malaria Malaria Report.

The thousand study participants also received supporting interventions including insecticide - treated bed nets to avoid malaria infection and a safe water system.

We're testing easily deployed technologies: bed nets to combat malaria, high - yield seeds, fertilizer.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Insecticide - treated bed nets were provided at enrollment, as well as malaria treatment when indicated.

Fourth, the world should adopt a plan for comprehensive malaria control, aiming to bring malaria mortality nearly to zero by 2012 through comprehensive access to antimalaria bed nets, indoor spraying where appropriate, and effective medicines when malarial illness arises.

For ethical reasons, we ensured that all participants were not denied existing malaria prevention (insecticide - treated bed nets) or malaria treatment.

And mosquitoes with the SM1 gene could well help keep malaria out when it has been cleared from an area using other means, such as bed nets, drugs, or a future vaccine, he adds.

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.

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.

«The empirical evidence from that Nature study and numerous other local studies, including the Cochrane review of bed net trials against malaria, therefore demonstrate a consistent positive effect of bed nets across a wide range of different mosquito ecologies even when protection is partial.

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.

Lengeler C. Insecticide - treated bed nets and curtains for preventing malaria.

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

There are no licensed vaccines for placental malaria and current strategies to prevent the disease rely on vector eradication (e.g. using chemically - treated bed nets, indoor residual spraying) combined with the intermittent administration of antimalarial drugs.

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.

Work undertaken during this period included demonstration of the efficacy of insecticide treated bed - nets in preventing death from malaria in African children and demonstration of the impact of Haemophilus influenzae type b and pneumococcal conjugate vaccines when deployed in sub-Saharan Africa.

Recent successes in malaria control have been largely attributable to the deployment of insecticide - based vector control tools such as bed nets and indoor residual spraying.

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In Senegal, 80 % of households now have a bed net, helping the number of malaria cases there drop 50 % in a single year.

The Global Fund has helped to deliver more than 190 million bed nets to protect families from malaria.

The risk of malaria is lower than ever, and to ensure your comfort, we have mosquito nets in every room, which an employee will come to set up over your bed every evening.

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.

Some potential discouraging news in the worldwide battle against malaria: A report from Senegal shows that mosquitos can rapidly develop resistance to insecticide used to impregnate 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.