The Angola Mosquito Net Project’s Committe Chairman Tako Koning was interviewed by Angola’s Vida mgazine, as part of their coverage of World Malaria Day on April 25. Click to download a PDF of the article, published on April 21. Vida is Angola’s popular arts, culture and business magazine that is printed weekly in Luanda. In [...]
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The Angola Mosquitonet Project donated 700 nets in January to the Mobile Clinic, a small team of women who work with some of the 350 patients at the Tuberculosis Hospital in Luanda. Headed up by Bernie Nicholson, a registered nurse who formed the group six years ago, the women get donations to buy food and [...]
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Read some recently published information about malaria in urban Luanda:
Download a PDF of the five page report published in March 2009 in The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene journal, titled: “How Much Malaria Occurs in Urban Luanda, Angola? A Health Facility-Based Assessment”
Download a PDF of the ‘Health facility-based evaluation of malaria [...]
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Although the MosquitoNet Project is small, for eight years we’ve been operating as volunteers with zero spent on overhead. We have managed to raise over $100,000 which translates into about 12,500 nets. Assuming that three or four people sleep under one family size net, this is equivalent to protection for at least 30,000 individuals.
The old [...]
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Doctor diagnosing a child with malaria in Cunene province, Angola.
We know mosquito nets are important for young children because they are more vulnerable to malaria, but why? According to the Angola Malaria Indicator Survey*, for about six months following birth, antibodies acquired from the mother during pregnancy protect children born in areas of endemic malaria. [...]
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On April 30, 2008, the Mosquito Net Project celebrated their 6th net distribution by giving nets to the following organizations: Concern in Bie province (education program), Development Workshop (Local initiatives Program), Baptist Church medical centre M’Banza Congo, Missionary Scott McHaney for Baptist churches in Uige and the Lundas, the Palanca Negra Shepherds Program (Malange), Women [...]
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The Angola Mosquitonet Project has exceeded the $100,000 mark thanks to a private donation of $1,500 received from a ‘Tullow Dublin Family’. This donation means we can purchase more nets and now include in our distribution the province of Cunene in the southern part of Angola. A group of 30 trained local maternal health care [...]
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April is a big month for the Angola MosquitoNet Project. It’s the month that we’ll be handing over nets… On April 30, we will be giving away 3,160 nets to various organizations including Development Workshop, the Soyo Baptist Church Medical Clinic and the Palanca Negra Project in Malange, to mention just a few.
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Welcome to the Angola MosquitoNet Project Blog. Malaria, a preventable and treatable disease, is the leading cause of death in Angola and all of Africa. And mosquito nets are the the first line of defense. The Angola Mosquito Net Project has raised over $90,000 since 2000 from individuals, groups and corporations in Angola and overseas. [...]
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