Sentences with phrase «of bed nets»

This mosquito species thrives in trash - strewn, puddly cities, bites in daylight (limiting the utility of bed nets) and has long posed a peril by carrying a host of dangerous ailments, including yellow fever, chikungunya and dengue.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

«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.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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.»

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.

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.

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.

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.

The floor or bed of your daughter will become a lot cleaner after getting this net for them.

I am mother of a very active exclusivly breastfed boy who also shares our bed after soo much negative comments about breastfeeding and co-sleeping mainly from family and members of the same culture / community I decided to search the net for ppl with similar parenting styles.

The entire bed is made of netting to allow ample airflow and also so your baby can see out.

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.

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.

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.

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.»

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.

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.

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.

«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.

«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.»

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.»

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.

«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 2007.

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.

It has supported the distribution of approximately 30 million antimalaria bed nets, helped to get nearly one million Africans on antiretroviral treatment and helped to cure more than two million people of TB.

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