Comments on: Expedition Nets Fly in the Face of Malaria http://ecolocalizer.com/2008/04/16/expedition-nets-fly-in-the-face-of-malaria/ News & commentary on sustainability, activism, urban planning, politics, and our world. Wed, 23 May 2012 06:36:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Dr. Tom C. Garven http://ecolocalizer.com/2008/04/16/expedition-nets-fly-in-the-face-of-malaria/comment-page-1/#comment-55698 Dr. Tom C. Garven Tue, 20 May 2008 19:47:50 +0000 http://ecoworldly.com/2008/04/16/expedition-nets-fly-in-the-face-of-malaria/#comment-55698 Medicine for Africa - www.medicinemd.com - has not only interests in collaborating with African governments, in order to support and develop their general health care system. MfA also provides medical information for non-professionals on their website, and one article covers Malaria. While nets are certainly cheap and effective, they still are often too expensive for, or unobtainable by many people in Namibia and elsewhere in Africa. The malaria article at - http://www.medicinemd.com/Med_articles/Malaria_en.html - also describes some alternative preventive measures that can be set in place by every African household and has shown to be quite effective. Here is one: "An African mosquito trap can be made out of an empty 2 liter soda bottle, 50 gram of (brown) sugar and one gram of yeast. It works like a charm for about two weeks, and every African family can afford one. The mixture produces small amounts of CO2 that attract the mosquitoes – away from the CO2 that we exhale, which otherwise would have attracted their interest." Dr. Tom C. Garven, Executive Director, Medicine for Africa, garven@medicinemd.com Medicine for Africa – http://www.medicinemd.com – has not only interests in collaborating with African governments, in order to support and develop their general health care system. MfA also provides medical information for non-professionals on their website, and one article covers Malaria.

While nets are certainly cheap and effective, they still are often too expensive for, or unobtainable by many people in Namibia and elsewhere in Africa. The malaria article at – http://www.medicinemd.com/Med_articles/Malaria_en.html – also describes some alternative preventive measures that can be set in place by every African household and has shown to be quite effective. Here is one:
“An African mosquito trap can be made out of an empty 2 liter soda bottle, 50 gram of (brown) sugar and one gram of yeast. It works like a charm for about two weeks, and every African family can afford one. The mixture produces small amounts of CO2 that attract the mosquitoes – away from the CO2 that we exhale, which otherwise would have attracted their interest.”

Dr. Tom C. Garven, Executive Director, Medicine for Africa, garven@medicinemd.com

]]> By: i http://ecolocalizer.com/2008/04/16/expedition-nets-fly-in-the-face-of-malaria/comment-page-1/#comment-55697 i Fri, 18 Apr 2008 19:10:29 +0000 http://ecoworldly.com/2008/04/16/expedition-nets-fly-in-the-face-of-malaria/#comment-55697 play a game to send a net for free to struggle malaria: http://www.nothingbutnets.net/its-easy-to-help/wmd P.S: Note that Funds will be released for nets through April 25th while funds last, up to $200,000 play a game to send a net for free to struggle malaria:

http://www.nothingbutnets.net/its-easy-to-help/wmd

P.S: Note that Funds will be released for nets through April 25th while funds last, up to $200,000

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