We know nurses form a critical part of our health care system. Nursing is a caring profession; just look what nursing students have done! The Regina Nursing Students Society raised 433.43! Thank you students!

Shirley R. of Deseronto hosted her 4th annual sale to raise funds for nets and medicine. The plant sale this year raised $1,050 and netted 3 villages! Thank you Shirley. We are overjoyed with your commitment and passion to help save lives from malaria. Shirley met Dr. Nkundeki of Uganda during one of his visits to Canada; she heard firsthand how her efforts have helped the women and children in Uganda. Thank you again, Shirley.

Pauline and Jane of St. Peter’s CWL and Parish

 Pauline and Jane of St. Peter’s CWL and Parish, Thunder Bay, raised over $1,000.00 for bed nets, protecting three villages!  Pauline and Jane said, “It is noteworthy…our youth group of about 10 kids held a yard sale…”

Tour d’Afrique Ltd.

Tour d’Afrique Ltd., Toronto, donate $100.00 for bed nets.
http://www.tourdafrique.com/

RBC Foundation

November 2009 RBC Foundation donates thousands of bed nets to save lives from malaria, protecting families in nearly 60 villages!

Soccer Kicks Malaria

Players kick off World Cup anti-malaria fight

Footballers are teaming up with governments, companies and international health campaigners to push for action against malaria ahead of next year’s World Cup finals in South Africa.

The “United Against Malaria” campaign, which will start next month and run until the end of the World Cup, has won the backing of singer Bono, actress Ashley Judd and philanthropist Melinda Gates, wife of Microsoft founder Bill.

http://www.reuters.com/article/healthNews/idUSTRE59G22V20091017

African Leaders Unite to Meet UN Malaria Eradication Targets

African leaders are at the forefront of a landmark initiative to protect all those at risk from malaria with life-saving interventions by the end of 2010, the United Nations Envoy for efforts to defeat the deadly disease says. Click on the link below for the whole story from the UN News Centre.

http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=32227&Cr=malaria&Cr1

Stakeholders Explore the Sustainability of Malaria Prevention Efforts

Media Advisory

The first international symposium on malaria prevention, Walking Together Hand in Hand to Fight Malaria, will be held on October 17, 2008, at the Fairway Hotel in Kampala, Uganda. The symposium aims to strengthen the leadership of Ugandan nurses in managing malaria prevention and treatment. Malaria, one of the leading causes of death among children in Africa, takes a child’s life every 30 seconds.

Guest speakers include:
The Hon. Dr. Stephen Mallinga, minister of health, Uganda
Janet D. Obuni, president, Uganda National Association for Nurses and Midwives (UNANM)
Dr. June Webber, director, International Policy and Development, Canadian Nurses Association (CNA)
Dr. Graham Root, Africa director, Malaria Consortium Group
Senator Mobina Jaffer, Government of Canada
Debra Lefebvre, founder, BUY-A-NET Malaria Prevention Group
Teddy Kyomuhangi, project manager, Health Child Uganda
Despite advances in medicine, malaria continues to haunt over 40 per cent of the world’s population, infecting more than 500 million and killing up to 3 million every year.

The symposium is supported by UNANM, CNA and BUY-A-NET Malaria Prevention Group. For more information on BUY-A-NET and malaria prevention, visit www.buyanet.ca.

Contact:
Janet D. Obuni, UNANM
011256772522293 (International call)
0712845181 (In-country call) or

Patrick Bateganya, UNANM
011256772522293 (International call)
0772522293 (In-country call)

Cathy Bryan, BUY-A-NET Malaria Prevention Group
613-542-1264