Nothing But Nets Campaign Aims to Fight Malaria in Africa

Nothing But Nets Campaign Aims to Fight Malaria in Africa
The United Nations Foundation has raised over $20 million so far and supplied more than 700,000 treated bed nets to families. Transcript of radio broadcast:
27 July 2008


This is the VOA Special English Development Report.

Nothing But Nets is a campaign to give families in Africa free bed nets to prevent malaria.

Malaria is preventable and treatable, yet it remains one of the world's deadliest diseases. Another person dies from it about every thirty seconds. Most of the victims are children and most of the deaths are in Africa. Africa suffers more than a million deaths from malaria each year.

Nothing But Nets is a campaign of the United Nations Foundation. The nets are manufactured by Sumitomo of Japan and the Danish company Vestergaard Frandsen. The nets are treated with insecticides that kill mosquitoes, which spread malaria.

The campaign collects donations. People are asked to give at least ten dollars. Elizabeth McKee Gore heads the campaign. She says the nets cost about five dollars; the other half of the donation covers training and distribution costs.

Local health workers are taught how to hang and take care of the nets, then they train their neighbors. The campaign says each net lasts up to seven years.

Nothing But Nets was launched two years ago after sports writer Rick Reilly wrote about malaria in Sports Illustrated magazine. He urged his readers to donate money to the United Nations Foundation for its efforts to buy treated bed nets.

Since then, the campaign has raised more than twenty million dollars. The National Basketball Association, the United Methodist Church and other groups have joined the campaign.

So far, the campaign says it has supplied more than seven hundred thousand nets to children and their families in Africa. The executive director says parts of Africa will have received more than two million nets by the end of this year. Nigeria, the Central African Republic, Gabon, Ethiopia and Ivory Coast have already received supplies.

The Web site nothingbutnets.net points out that a net treated with insecticide offers about twice the protection of an untreated net. When enough houses have treated nets, the combined effect can make a whole community safer from mosquitoes.

The campaign is also involved in efforts to vaccinate African children against measles and polio. Elizabeth McKee Gore says she hopes that in time, Nothing But Nets can also direct its efforts to other parts of the world.

And that’s the VOA Special English Development Report, written by Jill Moss. You can learn about the efforts of other groups working in the developing world at voaspecialenglish.com.


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只不过网运动的目的是为防治疟疾在非洲
联合国基金会提出了超过2000万美元，至今并提供多于700000处理过的蚊帐的家庭。全文电台广播：
2008年7月27日

这是美国之音特别英语发展报告。

只不过网是一个运动，给家庭，在非洲免费的蚊帐，以防止疟疾。

疟疾是可以预防和治疗的，但它仍是世界上其中一个最致命的疾病。另一人死于每隔约三十秒。大部分的受害者是儿童和大部分死者是在非洲。非洲遭受100多万人死亡的疟疾，每年。

只不过网是一个运动的联合国基金会。防鲨网的供应商生产的住友，日本和丹麦公司vestergaard frandsen 。网队是治疗用杀虫剂杀死蚊虫，传播疟疾。

运动，收集捐款。人民是要求给予至少10美元。黄钱其濂mckee戈尔元首的运动。她说，防鲨网的成本约为5美元;另一半的捐赠，包括培训和配送成本。

当地的卫生工作者是学会了如何坑及照顾防鲨网，那么他们培养他们的邻居。运动说，每个网持续长达七年。

只不过网发起了两年前后，体育作家里克Reilly的写了有关疟疾在体育画报杂志社。他敦促他的读者捐款给联合国基金会为努力购买处理过的蚊帐。

自那时以来，该运动所提出的20多万美元。国家篮球协会，美国循道卫理教会和其他团体加入了这个运动。

到目前为止，该运动说，它提供了超过70.0万网，以儿童和他们的家人在非洲。执行主任说，非洲部分地区已收到了200多万网在今年年底。尼日利亚，中非共和国，加蓬，埃塞俄比亚和象牙海岸已收到用品。

网站nothingbutnets.net指出，净治疗杀虫剂提供了约两倍，保护一未经处理的网。当足够的房子有处理过的蚊帐，综合效果，可以使整个社会安全的由蚊子传播。

运动也参与了努力，为非洲儿童接种疫苗，对麻疹和小儿麻痹症。黄钱其濂mckee戈尔说，她希望在时间，没有蚊帐，但也可以直接努力，世界其他地方。

这是该美国之音特别英语的发展报告，写的小杰苔。您可以了解的努力，其他群体的工作在发展中世界在voaspecialenglish.com 。