It costs less than £4 to deliver a long-lasting insecticide treated bednet. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Journalist Alex Perry started shadowing Mr. Chambers as he set about cajoling health ministers, religious leaders, business leaders and the directors of international agencies to help him meet the goal set by the U.N. secretary-general: to provide an insecticide-treated bednet to everyone in the world who needed one, some 3.3 billion people, by the end of 2010. ❋ Sonia Shah (2011)
Mr. Chambers's campaign revolves around the mantra that saving a life with a bednet costs just $10. ❋ Sonia Shah (2011)
Health workers spoke enthusiastically about the malaria bednet program, the immunization program, the pit latrine program, and the family planning program ... ❋ Unknown (2010)
LONDON — Health groups have spent more than a billion dollars and bought millions of bednets to fight malaria, and 20 African countries have increased their bednet coverage at least fivefold, new research says. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Anti-malaria bednet usage increased sevenfold, helping average malaria prevalence plummet from approximately one in four people infected to one in ten. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The partnerships will focus on bednet distribution, net utilization education, and treatment in local communities where houses of worship are the most trusted institutions. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Just by showing up, everyone gets a care pack with a free insecticide-treated bednet to protect against malaria, a high-tech water purifier called "life straw" to break the cycle of chronic diarrhea, and a supply of condoms. ❋ Unknown (2008)
The simple bednet has become the spearheard of efforts to provide cheap, effective prevention against the disease. ❋ Unknown (2007)
But the death rate among children who did not have a recently-treated bednet was 44 percent higher compared to those with the net. ❋ Unknown (2007)
If we need to subsidize something, why not help the local entrepreneur overcome whatever barriers there are to a thriving bednet business? ❋ Unknown (2006)
A recommendation related to the latter reads that, Synthetic pyrethroids should not be used for indoor residual spraying in areas targeted for insecticide-treated bednet use if physiological resistance is to be prevented or delayed ...... ❋ Unknown (1997)
These may be coordinated or operated through local community organizations such as women's groups, village health or bednet committees and managed through cost-recovery systems, revolving funds. ❋ Unknown (1997)
So far only the synthetic pyrethroids, and the near pyrethroid etofenprox are suitable for bednet treatments. ❋ Unknown (1997)
· Insecticide use has been ongoing for a known period of time, or is planned for bednet treatment and for other malaria/vector control interventions and public health purposes; ❋ Unknown (1997)
The study also built a statistical model to examine how malarial deaths correlated with factors known to influence the disease's spread and progression, including "rainfall, health-system access, first-line antimalarial drug resistance, insecticide-treated bednet coverage, indoor residual spraying coverage, income per head, and educational attainment." ❋ John Timmer (2012)
Under Elias' leadership, the organization counted successes in such low-cost, high-impact realms as an affordable meningitis vaccine and better systems for malaria bednet distribution, as well as prevention and treatment of diarrheal disease. ❋ Unknown (2011)
LONDON - Health groups have spent more than a billion dollars and bought millions of bednets to fight malaria, and 20 African countries have increased their bednet coverage at least fivefold, new research says. ❋ Maria Cheng (2010)
