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World Malaria Day Goes Global!
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Seven years ago, on April 25th, 2000, African leaders from 44 malaria-endemic countries participated in the first-ever African Summit on Malaria, and declared April 25th as Africa Malaria Day. Last year, for the first time, the United States officially commemorated Malaria Awareness Day, celebrating progress and highlighting opportunities in the fight against malaria. To underscore the U.S. commitment to ending malaria related deaths, President Bush embraced the urgency of the cause by designating April 25th, 2007 as Malaria Awareness Day.
This year malaria awareness goes global with the celebration of World Malaria Day on April 25th! Malaria elimination depends on each of us taking a stand. Here are five things you can do to stop malaria in its tracks:
- Donate bed nets for families in Africa: Each long-lasting insecticide treated bed net protects a child from malaria. With one child dying every thirty seconds from this entirely preventable disease this is a great way to make a difference in the fight against malaria.
- Plan your own malaria event: a great way to celebrate World Malaria Day is to celebrate with friends and family. We have everything you need to make your event a success.
- Dance the night away: By joining our youth outreach program, Stayin' Alive, your school can take an active part in the fight against malaria.
- Learn more about the disease: Take 5 minutes on World Malaria Day to learn about this disease.
- Tell your friends and family to take a stand against malaria today: send an e-card and donate a bed net in honor of a friend or loved one.
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 Veto the 'Squito is a nonpartisan, nonsectarian, youth-led campaign protecting children and families from malaria. Veto the 'Squito S.W.A.T. T.E.A.M.s (Students Working As Teammates To Engage Against Malaria) are learning about the cause, educating others, contributing, and volunteering. SWAT TEAM members are raising funds with their families, schools, clubs, teams, places of worship and local media outlets to provide bed nets treated with insecticide and repellent to children and their families in sub-Saharan Africa. Veto the 'Squito's partners include Americans for Informed Democracy, Children for Children, and LOVE, HALLIE Foundation as well as students and schools around the country and the world.
www.vetothesquito.org
Nothing but Nets is a global, grassroots campaign to save lives by preventing malaria, a leading killer of children in Africa. Inspired by Sports Illustrated columnist Rick Reilly, who challenged each of his readers to donate at least $10 for the purchase and distribution of an anti-malaria bed net, thousands of people have joined the campaign. Founding campaign partners include the National Basketball Association's NBA Cares, The People of the United Methodist Church, Malaria no More, and Sports Illustrated. Active partners such as VH-1, AOL Black Voices and Rotarian's Action Group on Malaria are joining the fight. Nothing but Nets just completed distributing the first round of 150,000 nets to Nigeria through the Measles Initiative – a partnership of the United Nations Foundation, American Red Cross, U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention, World Health Organization, UNICEF and local country governments and ministries of health.
Send a Net – Save a Life. www.NothingbutNets.net
 The world is mobilizing for the fight of our generation against malaria in Africa, the killer and destroyer of life. Canadians can be front and center.
There is no more effective tool to fight disease-carrying mosquitos than treated bed nets. The Canadian national campaign Spread the Net, in partnership with UNICEF Canada, will cover Africans in both Liberia and Rwanda with 500,000 mosquito bed nets over the next two years, saving countless lives. Each net costs only $10, the price of a couple of lattes.
One Net. 10 Bucks. Save Lives.
Check out www.spreadthenet.org for how to participate.
 Against Malaria is a global focus for mosquito net fundraising. Every US$5 buys a long-lasting insecticidal mosquito net and then our partners fund the shipping, distribution, education and evaluation costs. 100% of the money you donate buys the nets themselves and they are put over heads and beds by our partners and we demonstrate that has happened. Our aim is to show there is global mass support for beating malaria. We aim to get millions of people to participate.
www.AgainstMalaria.com
 World Swim Against Malaria is a global grassroots swimming initiative. The first 'World Swim For Malaria' took place on and around 3rd Dec 2005. 250,000 people swam. It was the world's largest participatory swim. The next big swim is 5th April 2008. Our aim is a million swimming on and around one day. You can swim on, before or after the day. Every US$5 you donate buys a long-lasting insecticidal mosquito net. And then our partners fund the shipping, distribution, education and evaluation costs. 100% of the money received from you buys nets, they are put over heads and beds by our partners and we demonstrate that has happened.
www.WorldSwimAgainstMalaria.com
 Madness Against Malaria is a fun, international competition to identify the team that is best at raising funds to help in the fight against malaria. Our aim is to involve people all over the world. Each team (any group willing to band together to raise funds) will try to get others to donate money to the cause via their team page. The top 64 teams on March 1, 2007 go through to a knockout round: the "March Madness." Every US$5 you donate buys a long-lasting insecticidal mosquito net. And then our partners fund the shipping, distribution, education and evaluation costs. 100% of the money received buys nets; they are put over heads and beds by our partners, and we demonstrate that has happened.
www.MadnessAgainstMalaria.com
The foundation Malaria No More! Netherlands, a partnership of the Netherlands Red Cross, AMREF Flying Doctors, the Fred Foundation, and other future partners in the Netherlands and Europe, has been launched to ignite a grassroots movement of individuals, civil society, the public sector and the corporate world in the Netherlands and beyond. The goal of the foundation is to transform the dysfunctional effects of malaria by raising funds in the Netherlands and allocating these through NGO's and local parties for an integral approach, whilst at the same time supporting primary health care more broadly in Africa. This includes the purchase and distribution of bed nets and the mobilization of more volunteers for education and training. Additionally, Malaria no More! NL aims at raising awareness regarding malaria, not only in the Netherlands but also throughout Europe and in African countries where malaria prevails.
Save a child! Donate €10 for a bed net!
www.malarianomore.nl
Five & Alive is the new global marketing initiative of Population Services International (PSI) that targets individuals, foundations and corporations to raise awareness and funding in support of PSI's child health survival programs targeting children under the age of 5 including malaria prevention and treatment, safe water, micronutrients, pneumonia treatment and prevention of diarrheal disease.
www.fiveandalive.org
In the country of Liberia, malaria is the leading cause of death for children under five. Recognizing this loss of life is unnecessary and could be ended with a simple solution (long-lasting insecticide-treated bed nets), a group of leaders from within the hedge fund and financial community have come together to lead a call to action against the devastation of malaria in Liberia. The new initiative, called Nets for Liberia, seeks to raise $10 million to provide 1 million bed nets over the next 12 months covering an estimated one third of the country's population. The group believes that the return on investment of every $10 contribution is one, if not more lives saved, and the ability of every person to make a difference in the fight against malaria make the goal of terminating the disease a real possibility. Net distributions will be coupled with multiple planned vaccination programs throughout the country targeting and reaching the most vulnerable populations to malaria, women and children in rural areas. This partnership brings private sector funds to leverage public sector initiatives already in place and make them more effective at ensuring health and saving lives.
malarianomore.org/netsforliberia
Each year in Zambia there are more than 3,000,000 incidents of malaria and 50,000 malaria-related deaths. Against Malaria joins Malaria No More, Hedge Funds vs. Malaria, the Global Business Coalition on AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GBC), and the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) in a campaign aimed at raising funds to support the purchase of 500,000 long-lasting insecticide-treated bed nets. The campaign will help protect 1,000,000 of the country's most vulnerable children.
AgainstMalaria.com/MalariaNoMoreZambia500k
The American Red Cross "Fight the Bite" campaign is working to protect families against malaria and save lives in Africa and other at-risk regions of the world. The American Red Cross and its partners are providing insecticide-treated bed nets, educating families, researching ways to increase the use of bed nets and raising awareness about malaria. The campaign draws on the power of volunteers from American Red Cross chapters across the United States and from national Red Cross and Red Crescent societies around the world.
www.redcross.org/malaria
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