Shown to reduce malaria rates drastically, these are the four major tenets of the Imagine No Malaria Ministry.
What are prevention, education, treatment and communication?
100
This killer disease in Africa is 100% preventable, treatable, and beatable.
What is malaria?
100
This is the full name of the organization whose initials spell UMCOR.
What is the United Methodist Committee on Relief?
100
Rick Reilly, sports columnist for this popular magazine, is an avid supporter of Nothing But Nets.
What is Sports Illustrated?
100
It is this gender of the anopheles mosquito that spreads malaria from person to person.
What is female?
200
Draining standing water and cutting back brush from villages are examples of this Imagine No Malaria program focus.
What is prevention?
200
The population of this Oregon city is roughly half as large as the number of deaths from malaria, 1 million annually.
What is Portland?
200
This individual is a part of our “on-the-ground” service network, tasked with conducting net demonstrations, health workshops, and visiting villages to spread messages of malaria prevention and treatment.
What is a Community Health Worker?
200
This amount of money will purchase one life-saving bed net through Nothing But Nets.
What is $10?
200
This type of liquid is a fertile breeding ground for malaria-carrying mosquitoes.
What is stagnant water?
300
Over 70% of Africans use this as their primary means of receiving information.
What is radio?
300
A child under the age of five dies every 30 seconds from malaria, or approximately this many children per day.
What is 3,000?
300
This country, more than three times the size of Texas, boasts only 300 miles of paved roads, but more than 200 United Methodist outposts.
What is the Democratic Republic of the Congo?
300
The United Methodist Church is a founding partner in Nothing But Nets, a program initiated by this foundation.
What is The United Nations Foundation?
300
Similar to the flu, malaria can cause fever, nausea, and vomiting. Unlike the flu, the fever associated with malaria can reach this high temperature.
What is 105 degrees?
400
Improving diagnosis, case management and access to medication are elements of this focus area of the Imagine No Malaria program.
What is treatment?
400
Malaria account for roughly 60% of cases seen in hospitals and clinics in this country in Western Africa.
What is Sierra Leone.
400
This number, when texted on a cell phone, will enable the texter to sign a petition to save lives through the Imagine No Malaria Advocacy Network.
What is 27722?
400
Shown to be the most cost-effective way to prevent the spread of malaria, this important prevention measure is the main focus of Nothing But Nets.
What is an insecticide-treated bed net?
400
The malaria parasite destroys red blood cells, causing this condition often treated in sub-Saharan Africa by blood transfusion.
What is anemia?
500
The treatment for malaria, artemisinin combination therapy, can be administered either orally or by this alternate method.
What is a shot?
500
More than the population of the United States, Canada and Mexico combined, this is the annual number of cases of malaria worldwide.
What is 500 million?
500
The United Methodist Church has a resource network in sub-Saharan Africa that consists of more than 140 of these three delivery points.
What are hospitals, clinics and churches?
500
Almost $1 for every United Methodist in the United States, this is the amount of money raised by the church through Nothing But Nets.
What is $7.5 million?
500
Untreated malaria often leads to this tragic result.