Help UNICEF Canada Spread the Net

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Help UNICEF Canada Spread the Net
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How many different mosquito species are found
worldwide?

• a. About 10,000
• b. About 2,600
• c. Less than 1,000
• d. None, if the SWAT team finds them first

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Why do mosquitoes bite?

• a. Theyre mean-spirited and vindictive
• b. To give the males energy-- the Red Bull
  effect
• c. Primarily, because the females need a blood
  meal to develop their eggs

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How long can the average mosquito live?

• a. Not long, if someone gets slap-happy
• b. About one month
• c. About one week
• d. About 48 days

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What physician connected mosquitoes to malaria?

• a. It wasnt a physician it was Nurse Sumatra
  Sunny Woodworth
• b. Claudio Meneses
• c. William C. Reeves
• d. Ronald Ross

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What important person died of malaria in 323 B.
C.?

• a. Genghis Khan
• b. Alexander the Great
• c. Pope Gregory the Great
• d. Who knows? They didnt keep records then

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Malaria threatens roughly what per cent of the
world's population?

• a. 5
• b. 20
• c. 40
• d. 80
• e. 100

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Bed nets can last up to _____ year(s)

• a. 1
• b. 2
• c. 3
• d. 5
• e. 12

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Malaria The Parasite

• Malaria is caused by a parasite of the genus
  Plasmodium that is spread from person to person
  through the bite of an infected female mosquito

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Malaria The Facts

• 300-500 million people living with malaria
  globally, most of them in sub-Saharan Africa
  alone
• Caused 1 3 million deaths globally in 2006,
  more than 900,000 in sub-Saharan Africa alone
• Leading cause of death globally for children
  under 5 (3 000 deaths/day one child every 30
  seconds!)

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Malaria The Cost

• Accounts for more than US14 billion annually in
  health care costs and lost productivity
• Accounts for 40 per cent of public health
  expenditures
• Many African families spend a quarter of their
  annual income on malaria treatment

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Malaria is both preventable and treatable
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Insecticide Treated Bed Nets

• Insecticide-treated bed nets can reduce malaria
  transmission by at least 50 as many as 500,000
  children could be saved every year if all
  children under the age of five in Africa slept
  under bed nets
• Insecticide-treated bed nets can reduce the
  number of child deaths from malaria by 20
• Insecticide-treated bed nets not only provide a
  physical barrier to prevent mosquitoes from
  biting, they can actually kill mosquitoes and
  other insects
• Researchers are working on the development of a
  vaccine, but it will likely be many years before
  an effective vaccine is available

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How UNICEF helps
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UNICEF is the largest purchaser of bed nets in
the world UNICEF provides bed nets for free to
families in malaria-endemic countries UNICEF
supported the development of new, long-lasting
treated net technologies
UNICEF World Leader in Malaria Prevention
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Zimbabwe Bites Back

• 2.6 million to UNICEF to prevent malaria and
  fight childhood illnesses
• number of families with children under five and
  pregnant women possessing ITNs has risen from 7
  to more than 50
• likely to exceed the previously projected target
  of 60 by end of this year

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Fighting Malaria in Mozambique

• By late 2006 about 2.1 million treated mosquito
  nets had been distributed
• In the first 6 months f 2007, about 172,000
  mosquito nets were also distributed
• 20,000 of these nets benefited orphaned and
  vulnerable children, 64,000 went to pregnant
  women, and 88,000 long lasting insecticide nets
  were distributed to people affected by the floods

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On Track to End Malaria
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Spread the Net Campaign Goals

• The Spread the Net campaign will focus on raising
  5 million in order to purchase and distribute
  500,000 insecticide-treated bed nets and educate
  recipients on their usage to Rwanda and Liberia
  over a three year period
• Your 10 will provide one long-lasting
  insecticide-treated bed net that will protect an
  African family from malaria for up to 5 years

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Rwanda and Liberia

• In Liberia
• 235 out of 1000 kids under 5 years of age die
  each year.
• 42 of these children die from malaria
• Only 2.6 of children aged 5 years of age and 31
  of pregnant mothers have access to bed nets, not
  necessarily insecticide-treated bed nets
• In Rwanda
• 152 out of 1000 kids under 5 years of age die
  each year
• 32 of these children die from malaria
• Only 18 of children under 5 years of age and
  19.5 of pregnant mothers have access to bed nets
  in Rwanda

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Spread the Net Spread the Chance to Save Lives
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