NetsforLife®: Achieving Progress and Impact

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For World Malaria Day 2011, NetsforLife® will join with the United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR) in Mozambique to hang 100,000 malaria nets in homes in the Homoine and Panda Districts of Inhambane Province. Over the course of five days, 180 volunteers will be trained to help families learn how to use nets to prevent malaria, and an additional 400 volunteers will be mobilized for the distribution of nets.

"We are excited about partnering with agencies like UMCOR, a sister faith organization, to amplify the reach of the NetsforLife® malaria prevention initiative," said Meg L. DeRonghe, Acting Executive Director of NetsforLife®. "Our local and global partnerships are critical to the sustainability of the program and the positive changes it is making in so many communities."
Through community engagement, education, and monitoring and evaluation, NetsforLife® works in 17 malaria-endemic African countries and collaborates with international agencies, national programs and local malaria stakeholders to combat malaria by instilling a 'net culture': a community-wide understanding of the protective value of nets and the right way to use and care for them.

In countries where NetsforLife® has been active for a number of years, there is now renewed focus on maintaining people's working knowledge of how malaria is transmitted and how it can be prevented. [Watch a video interview with Samuel Asiedu Agyei, Monitoring & Evaluation Manager for NetsforLife®, discussing the importance of net culture in motivating families to take malaria seriously.]

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http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/netsforlife-achieving-progress-and-impact-120397459.html