NetsforLife: FAQs
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
How does NetsforLife® programming meets the MDGs?
In 2000, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were established to reduce the number of people living in extreme poverty by 2015. Developed by the international community including leaders from 191 countries, the eight goals were endorsed by development institutions and religious bodies, and have galvanized unprecedented energy and effort. The goals established by the international community are as follows:
1. Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger, 2. Achieve universal primary education, 3. Promote gender equality and empower women, 4. Reduce child mortality, 5. Improve maternal health
6. Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases, 7. Ensure environmental sustainability
8. Develop a global partnership for development
Why are Long-Lasting Insecticide-Treated Nets (LLINs) effective in Preventing Malaria?
Preventing the spread of malaria is the key to saving lives.
Since most malaria-carrying mosquitoes bite at night, the simplest and most effective preventive technique is sleeping under an insecticide-treated bed net. Sleeping under an insecticide-treated net protects against malaria by repelling and killing malaria-carrying mosquitoes. One net typically will cover three children.
What makes NetsforLife® different? How does education fit into your program?
In addition to the distribution of nets, a main component of the initiative is education about malaria transmission and prevention. Communities learn about the importance of using mosquito nets and receive detailed knowledge about proper net use and maintenance. When the program began in 2006, only four out of ten people understood how malaria was transmitted in the communities NetsforLife® was present. Now, nine out of every ten people understand how the disease spreads.
Our mission is to distribute long-lasting insecticide-treated mosquito nets to communities with the most need. In many instances, NetsforLife® works in places so remote and difficult to reach that no government services reach these people, who are literally, at the end of the road.
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