This weekend, the New York Times dedicated its magazine to women’s issues, with special features centered around an excerpt from “Half the Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide,” a book by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, who recently won the 2009 Literary Peace Prize. The magazine discusses the different ways to empower women worldwide, and we completely agree, for we also believe women hold the keys to child health and malaria prevention for the entire family.

In the article, “A Woman’s Crusade,” an excerpt from the book:
Surprisingly frequently, we’ve come across a mother mourning a child who has just died of malaria for want of a $5 mosquito bed net; the mother says that the family couldn’t afford a bed net and she means it, but then we find the father at a nearby bar. He goes three evenings a week to the bar, spending $5 each week.

In the article, “A New Gender Agenda,” an interview with Hillary Clinton:
But women die every minute from poor maternal health care. You know, H.I.V./AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria — those are all, unfortunately, equal-opportunity killers. Maternal health is a woman’s issue; it’s a family issue; it’s a child issue.

For more information about what Malaria No More is doing for maternal health, visit our Malaria Policy Center.

Erica has pre-ordered “Half the Sky” and looks forward to beginning the book on September 8^th.

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