Bed-nets Videos

Malaria is a significant health problem in the Ho area. Four villages, Adidome, Kpogadzi, Vedome and Atiyinu, near Ho each receive approximately 250 nets to achieve blanket coverage.

Scientist Joe Kaplinsky takes a sober look at the controversial chemical DDT, noting that it is one of the most effective pesticides ever developed and great at combating malaria. He also employs a critical approach to the intellectual legacy of Rachel Carson, author of the famous 1962 book The Silent Spring . Kaplinsky takes on the anti-scientific prejudices of Carson and her followers and suggests DDT could be and should be widely used today to save lives.

Neno District in southern Malawi is strongly affected by malaria. This distribution of 19,300 nets will take place in 10 related areas via rural hospitals, health centres and dispensaries. The beneficiaries will be children under 5, pregnant women and people living with HIV/AIDS, those most vulnerable to malaria.

Neno District in southern Malawi is strongly affected by malaria. This distribution of 19,300 nets will take place in 10 related areas via rural hospitals, health centres and dispensaries. The beneficiaries will be children under 5, pregnant women and people living with HIV/AIDS, those most vulnerable to malaria.

WORLDbytes has released this filmed report as a challenge to Western campaigners organising World Malaria Day commemorations. The report criticises campaigners fixation with bed nets. As African volunteer Helder Da Costa says: It s the West s ban on DDT that has killed people and is killing people. Telling the truth would be a start and boat loads of DDT not bed nets would make a huge impact. Ben Hoyte explains: When I was a kid in Barbados I had to go to bed early under a net until they started spraying; now I don t have to spend half my life in bed and I don t see why anyone else should have to either. Director Ceri Dingle says: There is something quite nauseating about a campaign which treats Africa as a continent of little children that should go to bed early under a charity veil, otherwise known as a bed net. It is sadly consistent with Western low horizons, environmental prejudice and patronising, guilt inspired giving. If campaigners were serious about the eradication of malaria, pesticides would be number one on the agenda. The WORLDbytes online channel is available at www.worldbytes.org

Neno District in southern Malawi is strongly affected by malaria. The beneficiaries were children under 5 and pregnant women, those most vulnerable to malaria.

Neno District in southern Malawi is strongly affected by malaria. The beneficiaries were children under 5 and pregnant women, those most vulnerable to malaria.

Neno District in southern Malawi is strongly affected by malaria. The beneficiaries were children under 5 and pregnant women, those most vulnerable to malaria.

Neno District in southern Malawi is strongly affected by malaria. The beneficiaries will be children under 5 and pregnant women, those most vulnerable to malaria.

Neno District in southern Malawi is strongly affected by malaria. This distribution of 19,300 nets took place in 10 related areas via rural hospitals, health centres and dispensaries. The locations were: Chifunga, Lisungwi, Luwani, Magaleta, Matandani, Matope, Neno District, Neno Parish, Nkula, Nsambe. The beneficiaries were children under 5 and pregnant women, those most vulnerable to malaria.

SHEBEDINO, Ethiopia, 5 August 2008 -- The rainy season is well underway in much of Ethiopia, but while the rains bring hope to rural communities, they also create ideal breeding conditions for malaria-carrying mosquitoes. Over twenty million insecticide-treated nets (ITNs) have been distributed to more than ten million households in malaria-prone areas of Ethiopia since 2005. The nets have only a three-year lifespan, however, so those that were distributed early in the campaign now need replacement. Mulunesh Musse shares one such treated bednet with her four children in Shebedino District. The bednet is now ripped along one side and has a gaping hole in front, so it no longer fully protects her and her family from malaria. To read the full story, visit: http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/ethiopia_45066.html