{"id":2002,"date":"2009-10-16T09:34:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-16T09:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/?p=2002"},"modified":"2009-10-16T09:51:31","modified_gmt":"2009-10-16T09:51:31","slug":"malaria-at-mukuni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/2009\/malaria-at-mukuni\/","title":{"rendered":"Malaria at Mukuni"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After six months without rain October\u00a0sees the\u00a0start of the rainy season in <a title=\"Zambia\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/about\/why-zambia\/\">Zambia<\/a>. The parched earth, the\u00a0dry river\u00a0beds,\u00a0the farmers and wildlife welcome the\u00a0precipitation and so do the mosquitos &#8211; the most unwelcome of creatures.\u00a0<a title=\"Africa malaria\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/2009\/africa-malaria\/\">Africa malaria<\/a>\u00a0is the number one killer of man; seventy-five per cent of people worldwide who die from this disease are children under the age of five\u00a0mostly in Sub-Sahara\u00a0Africa.\u00a0This region has <em><a title=\"Malar\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/page\/3\/\">Plasmodium falciparum<\/a><\/em>, the most common and deadliest form of malaria, but easily treated if diagnosed in time.<\/p>\n<p>The Zambian government&#8217;s policy\u00a0is to provide mosquito nets for all pregnant women and under-five children. However during my recent visit to <a title=\"Mukuni\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/our-work\/mukuni\/\">Mukuni<\/a> I found that there was a huge shortfall, when asked to deliver these nets to\u00a0certain villages\u00a0less than half of the required amount had been provided. <a title=\"HIV\/AIDS\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/2008\/world-aids-day-2\/\">HIV\/AIDS<\/a> sufferers are also vulnerable and need protection.\u00a0Working with\u00a0our NGO\u00a0team on the ground we are determined to supply these remote\u00a0communities with additional nets before the heavy rains make the villages inaccessible.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"reflect\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3483\/4015782677_e1a75a72c8.jpg\" alt=\"CIMG3928 by you.\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Malaria at Mukuni<\/strong><\/em>: These young children need protection against this disease<\/p>\n<p>This week I attended a <a title=\"Philanthropy Forum\" href=\"http:\/\/www.actionplanning.co.uk\/rich.pdf\">Philanthropy Forum<\/a> in London, listening to some of Briton&#8217;s biggest charity donors, including Sir Richard Branson tell us how they are tackling major issues such as global warming, poverty HIV\/AIDS and malaria. Though there is tremendous support from international governments and wealthy donors I see very little filtering through to the rural villages\u00a0such as \u00a0Mukuni. The Butterfly Tree supports a malaria program at <a title=\"Mukuni Health Centre\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/2007\/mukuni-health-centre\/\">Mukuni Health Centre<\/a> by providing mosquito nets, malaria testing kits and education workshops. Please help us save lives by <a title=\"Donate\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/get-involved\/online-donations\/\">donating<\/a> just \u00a33 to purchase a mosquito net.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After six months without rain October\u00a0sees the\u00a0start of the rainy season in Zambia. The parched earth, the\u00a0dry river\u00a0beds,\u00a0the farmers and wildlife welcome the\u00a0precipitation and so do the mosquitos &#8211; the most unwelcome of creatures.\u00a0Africa malaria\u00a0is the number one killer of<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/2009\/malaria-at-mukuni\/\"> More details ><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11864,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2002"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2002"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11863,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2002\/revisions\/11863"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}