Today the world’s largest NGOs that work to fight malaria hosted an informative Twitter chat about malaria’s devastating effects on women, men, and children as well as facts to stop the spread of the global, 100% preventable disease.
Below are key tweets from the daylong chat and relevant infographics from our friends at Jhpiego. You can continue to follow the conversation at #malariabuzz.
#Malaria progress: since 2000 over 1.1 million lives have been saved. #malariabuzz #worldmalariaday #globalhealth ow.ly/kpSVA
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GlobalHealth.gov (@USGGlobalHealth) April 25, 2013#Didyouknow that after being infected it takes about 12 days before a mosquito can transmit malaria? #malariabuzz
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USAID Global Health (@USAIDGH) April 25, 2013Why #malaria & #malnutrition need to be tackled together: ow.ly/kq7Cw #WorldMalariaDay #malariabuzz
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GAIN (@GAINalliance) April 25, 2013Want to tell the difference between a male and female mosquito? Males have bushy antennae. #didyouknow #malariabuzz
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USAID Global Health (@USAIDGH) April 25, 2013Over 1.1 million lives have been saved over last 10 years thanks to malaria control and prevention. Let's continue progress! #malariabuzz
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(@Jhpiego) April 25, 2013
Thanks for joining our #malariabuzz chat! Thank you to Dr. Christen Fornadel. Now join #PMI’s Dr. Belay on @usmissionuganda.
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USAID Global Health (@USAIDGH) April 25, 2013Learn how #mobile technology is used to report malaria cases. #malariabuzz #worldmalariaday ar.gy/449t
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Int'l Development (@RTI_INTL_DEV) April 25, 2013The threat of malaria is created by #poverty, not mosquitoes. #malariabuzz
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Clash (@Clash_Int) April 25, 2013The President's #Malaria Initiative releases 7th Annual Report to Congress on #worldmalariaday: ow.ly/koA2y #malariabuzz
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john snow, inc (JSI) (@JSIhealth) April 25, 2013In the last 6 months, @deliverproject has procured 32.3 million ACTs for #PMI #malariabuzz
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USAID | DELIVER Proj (@deliverproject) April 25, 2013<graphic> 46.9 MILLION bed nets were distributed in Nigeria - enough to encircle world 4x! #malariabuzz #dataviz ow.ly/i/1Ye8q
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USAID | DELIVER Proj (@deliverproject) April 25, 2013<photo> A boat full of bednets: ow.ly/kqgaA #malariabuzz #thelastmile
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USAID | DELIVER Proj (@deliverproject) April 25, 2013Community #healthworkers play a big role in testing for #malaria and saving lives! #WorldMalariaDay #malariabuzz http://t.co/r7acS9eLOy
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(@CapacityPlus) April 25, 2013What's #nutrition got to do with it? More than you thought! ow.ly/kpN8j via @JohnsHopkinsSPH #WorldMalariaDay #malariabuzz
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Future Fortified (@FutureFortified) April 25, 2013NEW report: #Ghana Urban Malaria Study ow.ly/kiWhX #malaria #jsiINTL #malariabuzz
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john snow, inc (JSI) (@JSIhealth) April 25, 2013Many of the workers in the supplier community are non office-based. And less likely to be targeted by traditional approaches. #malariabuzz
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(@Africare) April 25, 2013Join us & our Sr. Malaria Specialist @bbbrieger for #malariabuzz chat on Preventing Malaria in Pregnancy @ 3:30pm! Chatting now: @Africare
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(@Jhpiego) April 25, 2013There are missed opportunities to provide IPTp at ANC due to stock-outs, provider attitudes, client beliefs. #malariabuzz @USAIDGH @Jhpiego
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Bill Brieger (@bbbrieger) April 25, 2013Supported by @ExxonMobil & Jhpiego women in Chad village educate on how 2 protect their fam from malaria #malariabuzz bit.ly/11itN5R
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(@Jhpiego) April 25, 2013WHO now recommends > original 2 IPTp doses, suggests pregnant women get it each ANC visit after quickening. #malariabuzz @USAIDGH @Jhpiego
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Bill Brieger (@bbbrieger) April 25, 2013Real world infographics are teaching communities the true cost of malaria stompoutmalaria.org/weekly-awesome… #malariabuzz
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Stomp Out Malaria (@StompOutMalaria) April 25, 2013
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