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.

Univ of North Carolina reports $6 bed net saves babies and is an “extremely cost-effective intervention”

“Giving insecticide-treated bed nets to nearly 18,000 mothers at prenatal clinics in the Democratic Republic of Congo prevented an estimated 414 infant deaths from malaria, a study by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill researchers concludes.

The bed nets cost about $6 each. … the intervention prevented an estimated 587 low birth weight deliveries, which in turn reduced long-term disability.

“This is an extremely cost-effective intervention,” said Sylvia Becker-Dreps, M.D., M.P.H., assistant professor of family medicine in the UNC School of Medicine and lead author of the study, which is published in the September 2009 issue of the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.” 

Read more here:  http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-09/uonc-usi090209.php