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Imagine No Malaria IMPACT 100

Imagine No Malaria IMPACT 100. Background: Malaria. There are over 500 million cases of malaria each year. 90% of these cases occur in sub-Saharan Africa. Over 1 million people lose their life to malaria each year – the vast majority children under the age of five.

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Imagine No Malaria IMPACT 100

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  1. Imagine No Malaria IMPACT 100

  2. Background: Malaria • There are over 500 million cases of malaria each year. 90% of these cases occur in sub-Saharan Africa. • Over 1 million people lose their life to malaria each year – the vast majority children under the age of five. • We lose a child to malaria every 30 seconds; 3,000 children a day. • Malaria is a preventable, treatable and beatable disease.

  3. Background: Malaria Symptoms: • chills • nausea • sever headaches • muscle pain and weakness • high fever (106oF) Can lead to death, brain damage, or other infections

  4. PLAYImagine No MalariaOverview Video

  5. Comprehensive Approach Prevention + Education + Communication + Treatment = Sustainable victory over malaria

  6. Prevention • Continue distributing life-saving bed nets • Eliminate mosquito breeding vectors

  7. Education • Teach families to protect themselves, how to identify symptoms and where to seek treatment • Train more community health workers to serve remote areas

  8. Communication • Utilize existing/effective communication vehicles, including radio, cell phones, and word-of-mouth

  9. Treatment • Equip hospitals and clinics with better medicine, adequate resources, and diagnostic tools • Increase access to care, and the capacity to treat more patients

  10. Imagine No MalariaGod’s Hands of Healing and Hope • Prevention • Education • Communication • Treatment Luke 9:6: “So they set out and went from village to village, preaching the gospel and healing people everywhere.”

  11. Will You Join Us in Impacting 100 Lives? The King will reply, ‘I tell you the truth, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me.’ Matthew 25:40

  12. www.ImagineNoMalaria.org

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