MALARIA NO MORE'S BLOG
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Tell President Obama: We’re behind your commitment to ending malaria deaths by 2015!
- Posted on 04.22.09
Related causes: Health
Malaria is a disease that is completely preventable and treatable. And yet, every 30 seconds, a child under five dies from malaria.
President Obama has promised to make ending malaria a priority for our country. Let’s show him he has our full support!
Sign the Malaria No More Proclamation to show President Obama and Congress that you care about ending this disease’s chokehold on Africa. We need 25,000 signatures to deliver to the White House by World Malaria Day, April 25, 2009.
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Vroom! The Race against Malaria Speeds Up
- Posted on 03.24.09
Malaria No More is teaming up with Patrón Highcroft Racing for Miles to End Malaria to raise funds and awareness for the race to save lives from malaria throughout the 2009 American Le Mans Season.
Patrón Highcroft Racing is kicking off the fundraising efforts by donating five dollars for every mile the team completes in the 2009 race season—approximately 4,500 miles—to Malaria No More. That contribution will be matched by the team’s sponsor, Tequila Patrón, for a starting point of $10 per mile.
That’s a bed net for every mile—and race fans from across the country can be part of the team! Fans can pledge as little as one penny per mile and watch the team’s progress on the track turn into lives saved. Malaria No More will use all donations to send mosquito nets to families in need in Africa.
Adding to the cool factor, Patrón Highcroft Racing has put the Malaria No More logo on its brand new Acura ARX-02a racecar.
The program officially launches this Friday, as the team p...Read More -
Our Jobs Are About to Get a Lot More Fun (Hint: Lasers)
- Posted on 03.24.09
The malaria-fighting community is an inventive—if eccentric—group of people. To spend all day, every day, relentlessly focused on eliminating a tiny bug (regardless of the fact that this tiny bug has enormous capacity for harm) is, by definition, to be a little bit crazy.
So it follows that the introduction of mad scientists into our happy clan was, in many ways, inevitable.
A fantastic article in the Wall Street Journal tells the story of Dr. Wood and Dr. Kare, two astrophysicists who once worked on President Reagan’s Star Wars project, and who are now working on a new way to fight malaria-carrying mosquitoes…with lasers:
…researchers in long white coats recently stood watching a small glass box of bugs. Every few seconds, a contraption 100 feet away shot a beam that hit the buzzing mosquitoes, one by one, with a spot of red light. The insects survived this particular test, which used a non-lethal laser. But if these researchers have their way, the Cold War missile-defense...Read More -
Comic Relief Provides Malaria Relief
- Posted on 03.24.09
Related causes: Health
The UK’s Red Nose Day—a project of Comic Relief—has raised nearly £60 million to help poor, vulnerable and disadvantaged people turn their lives around across Africa, throughout the world’s poorest countries and closer to home here in the UK. This year, Comic Relief put a special spotlight on fighting malaria in Africa.
Red Nose Day invited people across the UK to “Do Something Funny For Money” and donate to this great cause. In addition, several British celebrities climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania to raise funds and awareness about malaria on the continent. Comedy specials aired on the BBC and the whole country took part in the effort to improve lives around the world.
Red Nose Day gets it name from the red clown noses (which change in style from year to year) worn across the country to make the day.
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Fighting Malaria with an MBA: A New Business Plan
- Posted on 03.24.09
Related causes: Health
Last week, I went to the San Diego State University for their annual Sports MBA Case Competition. Some of the best young sports business minds from across the country put their classroom skills to real-world use in order to tackle a problem that they likely haven’t come across in their strategic management courses: ending malaria in Africa.
Malaria No More was lucky enough to be a partner (and I was happy to be a judge!) in the Case Competition, which, for the first time, included a specific cause-marketing angle. The teams had 24 hours to develop a strategy to harness the 2010 World Cup in South Africa to raise awareness of malaria and government support to fight it. The challenge the teams tackled is part of a real world effort of the malaria community including MNM, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the United Nations Foundation, the Roll Back Malaria Partnership, Johns Hopkins University/VOICES, the ONE Campaign and Comic Relief.
All of the judges were impressed with th...Read More
