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
The number of deaths from malaria, 1 million annually, is roughly equivalent to the population of what major US city?
What is San Antonio, TX?
100
This is the full name of the missionary arm of the United Methodist Church:
What is the United Methodist Committee on Relief?
100
The United Methodist Church is a founding partner in Nothing But Nets, a program initiated by this foundation.
What is The United Nations Foundation?
100
The female type of mosquito spreads malaria from person to person.
What is anopheles mosquito?
200
Draining standing water and cutting back brush from villages are examples of what Imagine No Malaria program focus?
What is prevention?
200
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?
200
This individual is a part of our "on-the-ground" service network, tasked with conduction net demonstrations, health workshops, visiting villages to spread messages of malaria prevention and treatment.
What is a Community Health worker?
200
Rick Reilly, sports columnist for this popular magazine, is an avid supporter of Nothing But Nets.
What is Sports Illustrated?
200
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?
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 this many children per day.
What is 3000?
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 Congo?
300
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?
300
The malaria parasite destroys red blood cells, causing this condition often treated in sub-Saharan Africa by blood transfusion.
What is anemia?
400
The treatment for malaria, artemisinin combination therapy, can be administered either orally or by this alternate method.
What is a shot?
400
Malaria accounts for roughly 60% of cases seen in hospitals and clinics in what country in Western Africa?
What is Sierra Leone?
400
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?
400
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?
400
There are four different parasite variations that cause malaria; this is the most deadly.