Printed mosquito nets

Printed mosquito nets for Uganda


Protect vulnerable children against malaria

One of the most effective ways to protect children against malaria is to let them sleep under a mosquito net. They then run less risk of contracting and dying from malaria. A child who sleeps better and is sick less often also performs better at school. Malaria is the main reason for school absenteeism in Africa. Protecting children agains malaria is an investment for life.

Malaria


Malaria Malaria is a devastating disease and is transmitted by the bite of an Anopheles mosquito. This mosquito is mainly active at night. That is why people need to protect themselves against malaria after sunset. Malaria mainly affects young children and pregnant women in Africa. Fortunately, child mortality has fallen sharply over the past 20 years as a result of global malaria measures. It is estimated that more than 700 million cases of malaria were prevented and 7 million lives saved between 2000 and 2015. But still around 200 million people get malaria every year, of which more than 400 thousand die.

Achieved success


Three measures were responsible for the above success: (1) Indoor spraying of insecticides to kill mosquitoes; (2) anti-malaria drugs; and (3) protecting people with an insecticide-treated mosquito net. The latter, the mosquito net, has had the greatest impact in the fight against malaria. More than 2 billion mosquito nets have been distributed in the past decade, accounting for 68% of the success achieved. Based on research, the World Health Organization has demonstrated the protective effect of the mosquito net. That is why the mosquito net is now recommended as one of the most important preventive measures against malaria.

Printed mosquito net


The mosquito nets that the Dutch Malaria Foundation distributes are no ordinary mosquito nets. These are mosquito nets that have been improved and made more beautiful with a beautifully coloured print. “We all like different things. Watch how people dress. Different colours and different prints. And people take better care of things they like, ”says Bashir Nzabanita of Twiga Ventures in Uganda. If people can choose what they like, they will become more attached to it and take better care of it. That has been proven. The Malaria Consortium, an international non-profit organization specialized in the prevention, control and treatment of malaria in vulnerable populations, investigated the use of printed mosquito nets among 2,500 pregnant women in Uganda. The results show that printed mosquito nets were better used and maintained than regular mosquito nets. That is why the Dutch Malaria Foundation opts for printed mosquito nets: these nets are more beautiful, are used better and longer, and thus offer better protection.

Where do the printed nets go?


The mosquito nets will be handed out in Uganda. Why in Uganda? Because Uganda ranks amongst the 3 highest malaria burden countries in the world! Twiga Ventures, based in Uganda, purchases the mosquito nets locally and prints the nets in its own facility in Kampala. The nets will then be donated to vulnerable children, orphanages and schoolchildren. In this way we can help to protect the most needy children against malaria and stimulate local entrepreneurship.



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€ 8 buys 1 net 

1 net  protects 1 child


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Partners


To realize this project, the Dutch Malaria Foundation works together with Twiga Ventures in Uganda, the Buy One Give One program of Care Plus® in the Netherlands, and HP International.


Twiga Ventures is a local company that specializes in printing mosquito nets. The printed mosquito nets are brought to needy children and orphanages in Uganda, among others. The mosquito nets meet the requirements of the Uganda National Bureau of Standards and those of the national Ministry of Health.

To Twiga Ventures

Care Plus® is a Dutch company with more than 29 years of experience in the field of safe and healthy travel. As market leaders in Central Europe, Care Plus® is committed to educating and facilitating travellers with advice and products to enjoy and travel carefree. The company contributes to the fight against malaria by spending 1% of its annual turnover on the following malaria initiatives: The Buy One, Give Program; malaria applied research; and MalariaWorld.

To Buy One Give One

HP's vision is to create technology that makes life better for everyone, everywhere — every person, every organization, and every community around the globe.

To HP

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