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That fact bed net use protects users from Malaria deaths, especially children, is no news. But what happens once children grow up and stop sleeping under a net? We know that without bed nets, children acquire a partial immunity that protects them against severe malaria. Hence, it was speculated that protecting children from exposure to the pathegon would raise mortality among them once they were older. A new study sheds light on the matter.
in this country from many of these diseases but diarrhea, malaria you have a bed net. i do. the u.s. s effort to distribute these across africa and parts of asia saved 220,000 children from dying every single year. we know that. that s been validated by independent studies from boston university and elsewhere. we know this costs $6 and a kid can sleep under it for years. then this is a new device that we created. this doesn t look like advanced technology because it s not. as you know, this is a bag mask. you can put this on a little infant, put their mouth right in this piece and do suction to help babies breathe. we have launched an effort called helping babies breathe together with private companies that now produce this device for about $8. if you walk into an american hospital, a similar device made with much higher quality materials would cost 10 or 12 times that amount. if we can get these basic items, new technologies through new
malaria no more and policy fellow at the one campaign. and, gentlemen, welcome. it s great to see you here. david and i were on the trip together. tell folks at home sort of the big message here in why this work is so important, and why should the united states spend any money to send to this foreign country for this cause? well, i think you hit the nail right on the head when you talked about a child dying every minute. and the tragedy is that every single one of those deaths is preventable. a simple bed net stops a mosquito biting and transmitting malaria, and the money that the united states is spending is tiny compared to the overall spend of the government. it s one dime out of every $400 that the government spends we spend on the president s malaria initiative. and for that dime we see dividends across the world; strengthened economies, goodwill for america in countries around the globe. so that s really the message of world malaria day. this fight is winnable, we can win it, w