Housemates unite against malaria

These deaths are needless. Malaria can be prevented and it can be treated. Everyone can be part of the generation that changes the course of malaria in Africa and can join the winning team to help kick malaria out of Africa! Buy a United Against Malaria (UAM) bracelet online!
UAM is a partnership of football teams and heroes, celebrities, health and advocacy organisations, governments, corporations and everyone else who has united to win the fight against malaria. The campaign has excelled far beyond anyone’s expectations and while it was initially focused on the lead up to the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, it now has so much momentum and support throughout the world that it will continue to work towards the Millennium Development Goal target of reducing malaria deaths to near zero by 2015.
South African businesses and UAM have launched a powerful beaded bracelet project that provides an income for HIV and AIDS affected or infected unskilled workers in the townships in South Africa, involves the public, raises funds for malaria prevention and enables individuals and organisations to become health activists.
Hundreds of years ago, African people fell in love with beads. Beads of all colour and made of glass, seeds and stone and hand-woven into colourful headbands, intricate bangles and earrings, medicine horns and love tokens, are part of Africa’s past — and its future.
A simple string of beads makes up the UAM bracelet — but the symbol of being part of the effort against malaria in Africa was not always a beaded bracelet.
Initially, it was a blue strip cut from the material which is used for malaria nets and which is also used to pack the nets into bundles of 20. Malaria warriors — the men and women who travel from one African community to the next distributing malaria nets and educating people about malaria prevention and treatment — tied the blue strips around their wrists and those of the people they met as a sign of belonging to a common cause.
Today, by buying the UAM bracelet, individuals and organisations are actually purchasing mosquito nets for millions of people across Africa who cannot afford to buy their own nets.
Income from the sale of bracelets is shared on the principle of about two-thirds going to production (including the fee to the maker) and one-third to the mosquito net fund.
The price will vary slightly from country to country, but it will ensure that every bracelet generates about US$1 for the malaria fund.
Ten bracelets buy one net — and provide protection for two children for five years.