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NetGuarantee is Protecting Half a Million People from Malaria During Peak Season NEW YORK, Feb. 21, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NetGuarantee LLC announced today that Mozambique is the first country to have used its innovative finance mechanism to speed the delivery of life-saving mosquito nets to protect people against malaria. In November of 2011, 250,000 nets, delivered with the support of NetGuarantee, arrived in port in Mozambique - months earlier than would have otherwise...
KOLDING, Denmark, Feb. 13, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Bestnet A/S has announced that it has become an Affiliate Member of GBCHealth. Bestnet is a leading manufacturer of life-saving Netprotect® Long Lasting Insecticide Incorporated Mosquito Nets LLINs and the world's leading supplier of Yellowone Needle Cap, a simple and permanent solution to the disposal of used, and potentially infectious, luer-slip syringes/needles. GBCHealth is a coalition of more than 200 member companies and...
A new probe into the perils of malaria has found that 1.2 million people die each year from the disease, 50 percent more than previously thought, and 42 percent of those numbers occur in older children and adults, railroading long-believed assumptions that mainly young children die from the disease. The new research, conducted by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington, states that, even so, the number of deaths has fallen drastically due to efforts...
KOLDING, Denmark, Jan. 20, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Bestnet A/S announced today that their donation of 2500 striped Netprotect® Long Lasting Insecticide Incorporated Mosquito Nets (LLINs) has been received by the Rotary Club of Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast). The donated nets are unique in that they were manufactured in royal blue and gold stripes to match the colors of the Rotary International logo. Rotary International Logo:http://www.ereleases.com/pic/2012-RotaryLogo.jpg Malaria is...
KOLDING, Denmark, Jan. 20, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Bestnet A/S has announced that the company is once again donating Netprotect® Long Lasting Insecticide Incorporated Mosquito Nets (LLINs) to the Junior Chamber International - JCI/Nothing But Nets campaign in support of their participation in the Budapest to Bamako Great African Run, the world's largest charity road rally. Hundreds of drivers and adventurers from over 30 countries set out on January 13, 2012 from Budapest, Hungary...
KOLDING, Denmark, Jan. 19, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Bestnet A/S, the manufacturer of Netprotect® Long Lasting Insecticide Incorporated Mosquito Nets (LLINs), a leading brand in the fight against malaria, has announced that Nicolai Lund has recently joined the company in the position of Retail Sales Manager. Lund has over 17 years of experience in international retail sales, most notably in Europe and South America. He will apply his extensive expertise and knowledge of the worldwide...
KOLDING, Denmark, Dec. 1, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Bestnet A/S announced today that it has introduced a new feature to its corporate website. This new feature has been designed to help support the UN Foundation's Nothing But Nets campaign to raise funds to combat malaria. Even though it is a preventable disease, malaria claims the life of a child every 45 seconds. Bednets, such as Netprotect® Long Lasting Insecticide Incorporated Mosquito Nets (LLINs), and educating people about the...
Malaria Revealed As Ancient, Adaptive And Persistent Foe One of the most comprehensive analyses yet done of the ancient history of insect-borne disease concludes for the first time that malaria is not only native to the New World, but it has been present long before humans existed and has evolved through birds and monkeys. The findings, presented in a recent issue of American Entomologist by researchers from Oregon State University, are based on the study of insect specimens preserved...
KOLDING, Denmark, Oct. 28, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Bestnet A/S announced today that Doreen Weatherby, US Sales & Marketing Manager, appeared on the October 9, 2011 episode of The EmeraldPlanet television show during an episode entitled "LESS MALARIA: Reaching Community Immunity in Africa through a Proactive Community-Based Health Care Approach and Successful Partnerships." EmeraldPlanet is a worldwide non-profit organization based in the Washington, DC area that is dedicated to identifying...
Study in Benin, Africa finds indoor spraying with the insecticide bendiocarb reduced infectious mosquito bites to near zero; and offers effective tool for malaria control strategy in areas rife with pyrethroid-resistance Indoor spraying with the insecticide bendiocarb has dramatically decreased malaria transmission in many parts of Benin, new evidence that insecticides remain a potent weapon for fighting malaria in Africa despite the rapid rise of resistance to an entire class of...
