Press Releases
NetsforLife® Wins the Global Business Coalition Excellence in Business Action Award
NetsforLife® has received the Global Business Coalition Excellence in Business Action Award for outstanding Partnership and Collective Action. NetsforLife® and its partners will accept the award during the Global Business Coalition Awards Dinner that coincides with the Work Smarter Global Health Action 2010 annual conference in Washington, DC, on June 7-8.
Guest presenters will include Annie Lennox; Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of Health and Human Services; and Condoleezza Rice, former Secretary of State, among other notable dignitaries and leaders from business, government and the nonprofit sector.
NetsforLife® Kickoff to World Malaria Day: Instilling a net culture, one community at a time
On April 25, 2010 the global community will reaffirm its commitment to effective malaria control by commemorating the third anniversary of World Malaria Day. Counting down to World Malaria Day NetsforLife® in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), launched a net distribution campaign of 30,000 nets on April 15, 2010 while in Ghana the program is ramping up efforts to distribute over 1 million nets in the northern and eastern regions.
NetsforLife® Receives Recognition from the Alliance for Case Studies for Global Health
At the end of 2009, the Alliance for Case Studies for Global Health, released their publication Case Studies for Global Health. The NetsforLife® solicitation had the honor of being selected from a significant number of submissions. The 32 case studies are divided into four categories—access to medicines and health care services, discovery and development of new drugs and vaccines, health intervention and prevention programs, and health systems strengthening and capacity building.Smithsonian Channel premieres the “Malaria Zambezi River Expedition"
The “Malaria Zambezi River Expedition” premieres on 7/18 at 8pm with repeat airings on 7/22 at 9pm; 7/26 at 10pm; and 7/30 at 9pm. In March 2008, the expedition set off on a 2 month journey down the Zambezi River to spread global awareness of malaria and mobilize donor support for effective protection and treatment.
NetsforLife® Commemorates Day of the African Child
First initiated by the African Union, Day of the African Child is recognized internationally as an opportunity to take measure of progress toward the health, education, and security of all children on the continent.
To mark June 16th, 2009, the eighteenth anniversary of the Day of the African Child, NetsforLife® announces its continued commitment to mobilize over 30,000 volunteers and distribute up to 7 million long-lasting insecticide-treated nets in 17 malaria-endemic countries in sub-Saharan Africa over the next five years.
Episcopal Relief & Development Commemorates World Malaria Day
To mark World Malaria Day, April 25th, 2009, NetsforLife®, a program partnership of Episcopal Relief & Development, announces its second phase – an initiative to mobilize over 30,000 volunteers and distribute up to 7 million mosquito nets to 17 countries in sub-Saharan Africa over the next five years.
NetsforLife® will reaffirm this pledge at the One World Against Malaria Summit hosted by the U.N. Secretary General’s Special Envoy for Malaria and the Center for Interfaith Action on Global Poverty in Washington, D.C. this week.
Angolan floods worsen: NetsforLife® takes lead in malaria prevention.
The severe rainy season in Angola has caused massive flooding along the Zambezi river and the situation is worsening as rain continues to pour. In the Cunene province, NetsforLife® is working closely with the three districts that have been most affected by the floods: Bwanyama, Namacunde and Kuroka. More than 2,000 people in these regions have been displaced and are currently living in temporary shelters on higher ground. Thousands of people have lost their farms and livestock to the floods.
The Episcopal Diocese of Maryland’s Lent 2009 NetsforLife® Campaign
This Lent, as the Episcopal Diocese of Maryland prepares for Easter, children in all parishes are working together to help protect children in Africa from malaria in a coordinated campaign to support NetsforLife®. Through this campaign, children in the diocese are collecting money to buy nets and learning more about preventable disease. They hope to raise enough to buy 1,000 nets.
NetsforLife® Distributes Millionth Net to Eliminate Malaria in Sub-Saharan Africa and Launches a New Website
Three years after delivering the first long-lasting insecticide-treated net to a remote community in rural Zambia, NetsforLife® has concluded Phase 1 of its implementation by distributing its millionth net.
NetsforLife®: A Sign of Hope in Fighting Killer Disease
For Melita Panzo, the long white mosquito nets hanging in the Episcopal Relief & Development (ERD) booth in the Lambeth Conference marketplace, are signs of hope.
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