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US$   1,945,005
# Nets   389,000
as at  19 Jul 2008
 
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Why malaria?

 
 
1 - 3

1 - 3 million - million -
people die of malaria
each year

  
 
 
 
5

70% of them
are children under 5


  
 
 
 
7

The children that
will die today from
malaria would fill
7 jumbo jets
 
 
Malaria is the world's single largest killer of children and pregnant mothers.

 
 
A net

The single most
effective means of
prevention is a
mosquito net

  
 
 
 
$5

Each long lasting
insecticidal net (LLIN)
– the net of choice -
costs $ 5

 
 
 
 
$100

For each US$100
raised, 20 nets will end
up over heads and beds and save
one child's life 		 
 
Malaria is entirely preventable and treatable.
1-3 million people need not die each year.

More about malaria...

 
An initiative of Against Malaria