USA Today

November 29, 2017

What’s Mandy Moore giving for the holidays? Mosquito nets. The singer-songwriter-actress, the voice of Rapunzel in the new animated film Tangled, is working with international non-profit health group Population Services International and the United Nations Foundation’s Nothing But Nets campaign to provide Africans at high risk for malaria with mosquito nets.

Change By Doing

In just a couple of days I’ll start popping Malarone pills–a prophylactic anti-malaria medicine–for my trip to South Africa. Fortunately, I can afford the preventative medicine.

GOOD

Good news today on malaria efforts in the Central African Republic. 

The Nothing But Nets campaign and United Nations partner Population Services International report that at end of 2010, hundreds of thousands of nets were delivered to families in the Central African Republic.

Bloomberg

In 2009, actor and singer Mandy Moore saw the life-and-death role a mosquito net could play in the war on malaria in southern Sudan.

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

The 2011 Annual Letter from Bill Gates.

Orkin

Orkin will donate $10,000 to its Fight The Bite campaign if the app reaches 50,000 downloads by Feb. 28. Fight The Bite is Orkin’s partnership with the United Nations Foundation’s Nothing But Nets campaign, a global, grassroots effort dedicated to saving lives by preventing malaria in Africa. Malaria kills a child every 45 seconds, and Fight The Bite donations help Nothing But Nets purchase and distribute long-lasting, insecticide-treated mosquito bed nets to malaria-prone areas in Africa.

Beauty News NYC

Friday night, Korean promotional company Soul Lounge hosted an event here in New York City at Club Pacha, to showcase some of the city’s young up-and-coming fashion designers and kick off Fashion Week Fall 2011.

SLAM

SLAM doesn’t have much of a “party budget,” but we still get approached by folks wanting us to cosign their events all the time. Most don’t warrant a call back, but occasionally we find a winning match.

Revamp

Fashion, food, fundraising, and just plain old fun ruled the night at the “Fashion Rules!” Party hosted by Neiman Marcus Mazza Gallerie and DC Modern Luxury Magazine, as some of the world’s greatest designers and one of the District’s most delicious restaurants offered up their spring collections and delectables — all in support of the United Nations Foundation’s “Nothing But Nets” campaign to combat malaria. 

Philadelphia Inquirer

At first glance, it looks like any other colorful scarf, awash in beautiful pastels with intricate patterns. But a closer looks shows there is more going on than just fashion The scarf is covered with abstract lines of rows of oversize mosquitoes. The use of the insect in the design is intended to raise awareness of – and money for – a campaign to help save thousands of Africans from malaria.

Read more here.