As part of the World Malaria Day celebration, the NetWorks Project launched a net distribution effort today. Nets are being given out at schools across two Local Government Areas (LGA) in Cross Rivers State, Nigeria. Staff project that approximately 21,000 nets will be distributed in
A new video released by the NetWorks project shows methods used by Senegalese families to personalize their mosquito nets while maintaining functionality. By matching nets to home decoration, families are encouraged to use their nets consistently, NetWorks’ overarching goal.
There’s good news on the global malaria front. Despite financial constraints in Washington, the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate have upheld commitments to malaria control spending in the 2013 fiscal year, passing bills that will continue to fund efforts to save lives. Last
As NetWorks strives to achieve universal coverage with long-lasting insecticide-treated nets across Senegal, perhaps no population has proved a bigger challenge than the omnipresent, though frequently ignored, talibés, or Koranic students. Ranging in age from five to 18 years, the talibés study and frequently live
For many Muslims across Senegal, the annual pilgrimage called Magal is an opportunity for religious observance. But for the NetWorks project, the 2012 pilgrimage offered an opportunity of a different sort. The Magal pilgrimage increases the population of Touba, Senegal, a city in the center
A stone’s throw from the edge of Paoskoto village in Senegal’s interior, a collection of branch and stick huts sit dotted about in a field of old peanut shrubs. This small gathering of the nomadic Fula tribe has settled here briefly to trade with local farmers
Nevertheless, it was this unusual cast of characters that joined forces in December 2010 at a workshop to develop radio spots for the promotion of universal coverage of LLINs.
The NetWorks project, in partnership with the National Malaria Control Program (NMCP), PMI and other partners, has successfully achieved Universal Coverage in six regions of Senegal: Kedougou, Kolda, Sedhiou, Tambacounda, Kaffrine and Kaolack. A total of 1,362,141 nets were distributed between June 2010 and April
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon’s challenge to the world in 2008 to achieve universal coverage with malaria prevention by the end of 2010 was both a bold call and a serious technical challenge. Since that time, the global malaria community has responded in an unprecedented effort
Long-lasting insecticidal mosquito nets (LLINs) are effective in preventing malaria, but only when they are used consistently, by everyone in the household, all year long, every night. This is the driving premise of the Trois Toutes communication campaign in Senegal which seeks to go beyond
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