Sentences with phrase «many bed nets»

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.

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.

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.

Agents evaluate and advise homes on nutrition, family planning, hygiene practices, use of key preventative methods including bed nets, water treatment, clean stoves, and solar lights.»

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?

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

«Are we saying that every piece of military equipment is more important than bed nets, children's health and nutrition for low - income families?»

«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.

A $ 10 bed net can keep out deadly mosquitoes that spread the disease.

They're calling it «Ten Thousand Nets,» an effort to raise funds for 10,000 bed nets and to rally people all over Denver to lift their voices and advocate for continued U.S. leadership.

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.

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

Mrs. Alarbi said studies showed that for babies born to HIV - infected mothers, the use of niverapine drug combined with baby formulas to prevent mother - to - child transmission, could reduce child mortality to only two per cent of under - five mortality and morbidity while the use of insecticide - treated bed nets could reduce it by six per cent.

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.

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.

Ideally, ethyl pyruvate would be cheaper than DEET and sprayed on bed nets or other surfaces to act as a short - term human invisibility cloak to keep mosquitoes away, Ray says.

It's not clear whether MDA will be back on the table, or whether by then it might be possible to ensure that every family has a bed net and every clinic has testing kits and drugs.

Finding replacement insecticides for bed nets is far trickier.

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.

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.

It has a different mode of action from other insecticides, meaning that it could also be effective against mosquitos that rest and feed outdoors, as well as mosquitoes that are resistant to the standard insecticides used on bed nets and indoor spraying.»

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

The second is that there are important spillover benefits (or «positive externalities») when a person uses a bed net, because the net not only gives personal protection to the user but also helps to block transmission of the disease within the community.

We should therefore encourage very high levels of bed net use, just as we do with immunizations.

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 interventions.

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.

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.

«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.

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

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

«We know that giving insecticide - treated bed nets to a household will protect young children, reducing their susceptibility by 50 percent and their overall chances of dying by 16 to 17 percent.

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

«Genetic secret of mosquito resistance to DDT, bed net insecticides discovered.»

«Doing so depends not on the delivery of a single intervention, like vaccines, bed nets and cocktails of medicine, but on a well - functioning health system, with access to skilled birth attendants and emergency obstetric care.»

They would get long - lasting protection without having to take medication, get vaccinated or use bed nets or repellants.

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.