In Nigeria, Faiths Unite to Save Lives
By: Ray Chambers
December 10, 2009

Today, Nigeria’s most prominent religious leaders gathered to launch an unprecedented effort of up to 300,000 faith leaders who will work across the country to boost the usage of Long-Lasting Insecticidal Mosquito Nets.

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Nigeria: One Year Later
By: Ray Chambers
December 09, 2009

I arrived in Abuja, Nigeria today, one year after visiting last December. Nigeria has achieved transformative progress in the malaria control effort over the course of this year. Fifteen million nets were delivered in the past year alone, protecting 30 million lives, or one-fifth of Nigeria’s population, from malaria.

 

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Day One: Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, The Amana District Hospital
By: Gabrielle Fitzgerald
August 17, 2009

Gabrielle Fitzgerald of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is on the ground in Tanzania with Dr. Margaret Chan, Mr. Ray Chambers, and Dr. Tachi Yamada. She reports back on their first day:

Our first site visit this trip is to the Amana District Hospital, which provides care to the one million residents of the Ilala municipality. The hospital complex was large and well-maintained, and was filled with orderly rows of mothers and their children waiting to be seen.

Amana sees approximately 1400 people a day, and delivers 100 babies. New mothers are given a bed in the maternity ward for six hours to recover from the delivery of their baby, before being discharged to go back home.

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Nigerian Mosquito Net Deliveries Protect Millions from Malaria
By: Ray Chambers
August 05, 2009

In the effort to end malaria deaths, Nigeria is square one: it is Africa’s most populated country, and represents one quarter of the continent’s malaria burden. The climate and topography of this West African country support a prolific mosquito presence that transmits malaria unrelentingly throughout the year, leading to arguably the most virulent malaria environment on the planet.

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