Led by Ashton Kutcher, celebrities on Twitter are donating thousands of mosquito nets to Africans threatened by malaria. Will it make a difference?
Simple as they are, even mosquito nets generate complicated numbers games. Only one answer is easy: more are needed.
... shows that countries that provide insecticide treated mosquito nets free to their rural populations have achieved ... life-saving interventions like treated nets doesn't increase coverage."
The success ...
... has relied heavily on the use of insecticides for spraying inside of homes and treatment of mosquito netting. There are very few insecticides that are both effective and low-cost, while at the same ...
Genetically modified, malaria-fighting mosquitoes or even antibodies injected into humans and "fed" back to mosquitoes could be more effective than mosquito nets, researchers say.
Malaria killed nearly one million people worldwide in 2006, but better drugs and more mosquito nets in Africa are helping to thwart the tropical disease, the World Health Organization said in a report ...
... due to drug resistance and traditional public health approaches such as mosquito netting offering uneven results, two new papers by University of Notre Dame biologist Michael Ferdig ...
... context.
The situation is not entirely bleak, however. The combination of mass distribution of mosquito nets and nationwide distribution of artemisinin-based combination therapies has resulted in ...
... by using everything from shovels and plows to plant-derived pesticides may be as important as mosquito nets and vaccinations in the fight against malaria, according to a computerized analysis by MIT ...
... by using everything from shovels and plows to plant-derived pesticides may be as important as mosquito nets and vaccinations in the fight against malaria, according to a computerised analysis by MIT ...
... with one side open. They slept on a wood floor, protected by mosquito nets. Narins was bitten by leeches and woke up several mornings soaked in blood. They ate noodles and peanut butter. ...
WASHINGTON, D.C. (September 17, 2009) -- In a decade-long initiative to protect millions of families from malaria in sub-Saharan Africa, a U.S.
Insecticide treated mosquito nets reduce the chances of developing life-threatening malaria in Africa, ... their young children were much more likely to have malaria nets than older children. "5-19 years ...
