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Spread the Net’s Student Challenge is underway
Students across Canada have played a large role in the global effort to end malaria. Last year alone, the Student Challenge raised $104,263.44 or enough funds to provide 10,426 bed nets to families living in Africa. Top fundraising schools appeared on The Rick Mercer Report.
Learn More »Eradicating malaria is not a vague, unrealistic aspiration
Gates said a renewed focus and substantial increases in funding for malaria, partly spurred by his call in 2007 for global eradication of the disease, was steadily "shrinking the malaria map" and would continue to do so.
Learn More »Successes
By the end of 2010, 289 million bed nets will have been delivered to Sub-Saharan Africa.
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Malaria accounts for an estimated 8% of global deaths in children under 5 years
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