Decreasing Child Mortality
We are working with the UN and private partners to advance leading health campaigns aimed at decreasing child mortality. Our work has helped reduce the geographic range of polio from 30 to 4 countries; cut measles deaths by 90% in Africa and 70% worldwide; mobilize more than 1 million nets for malaria prevention; and immunize more than 500 million children. These efforts have saved millions of lives and enriched the lives of the individuals and organizations whose stories are found below.
STORIES OF IMPACT
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Net distribution impact reaches far & wide
Area of Involvement: Children’s Health
In the fall of 2008, our Nothing But Nets campaign helped to distribute 855,000 insecticide-treated bed nets as part of an integrated measles campaign in Côte d’Ivoire, reaching all corners of the country - the towns, the beaches, and the most rural outlying areas. The crowds of children and families waiting for their nets, smiling as they thank the health workers and volunteers, singing and dancing and crying, all tell a story of how a blue bed net is making a difference– it’s keeping them alive.
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Youth Get in the Game to Send Bed Nets
Area of Involvement: Children’s Health
Think a five year old can't make a difference in the world? See how Spencer is saving lives by saving pennies.
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Delivering Hope to Refugees in Uganda
Area of Involvement: Children’s Health
Malaria is the number one killer of refugees in Africa. For people who have lost so much, a bed net can mean life or death. I traveled to Uganda with the UN High Commission on Refugees to help deliver some of the 600,000 bed nets we have pledged to cover the most vulnerable of the camps.
LATEST NEWS
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Anti-Malaria Charity Pays for Nothing But Nets
June 30, 2009
Voice of America News -
Usher's role with Nothing But Nets
June 24, 2009
Washington Life Magazine
