Sentences with phrase «saving bed nets»
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.
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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.
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.
Rick Reilly is actually part of the inspiration behind the program, when in 2006 he wrote a column in Sport Illustrated urging all fans to donate just $ 10 to save a life with a simple bed net.
If a large fraction of the population is resistant to the disease, and other anti-malaria techniques are used (bed - nets, for example), millions of lives could be saved.