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Beauty With A Purpose
Last night, 83 beauties from around the world competed for the Miss Universe title and 5.8 million American viewers tuned in to watch, showing how immensely popular beauty pageants can be.
In Tanzania, young women are getting ready to compete in their own popular beauty pageant — Miss Tanzania 2010. This year, the competition, whose motto is “beauty with a purpose,” is spotlighting malaria and the Zinduka! Malaria Haikubaliki campaign as one of its key social causes.
In addition to featuring the Zinduka! campaign’s message of malaria protection during the September 11th final competition, the Miss Tanzania pageant will also incorporate Zinduka! across its month-long activities.
Zinduka! Goodwill Ambassador Mwasiti is currently in Arusha, a Northern region in the country, with contestants and briefing them on the malaria prevention, testing and treatment. While there, she and the contestants plan to visit a local hospital and speak to malaria patients and doctors. Other scheduled events include malaria awareness and community outreach in Dar es Salaam and a televised Miss Tanzania “Boot Camp” that will spotlight malaria prevention.
The beauty pageant will culminate on September 11th with a live, televised event that will feature a crowned winner and a finalist being named as a new Zinduka! Goodwill Ambassador. The new ambassador will help fulfill the pageant’s mission of “beauty with a purpose” by promoting malaria prevention, testing and treatment across the country.
The Miss Tanzania beauty pageant is organized by Lino International Agency and sponsored by Vodacom Tanzania, a leading telecommunications company in the country, and a partner of the Zinduka! Malaria Haikubaliki Campaign.
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Can you tell me how to get to…Sesame Square
According to a recent article, Sesame Street is moving back to Nigeria this fall, where it’s called Sesame Square. And Cookie Monster’s been replaced with Kami, who is HIV positive, and Zobi, who teaches malaria prevention.
In Nigeria, the show is renamed “Sesame Square” to more closely resemble the neighborhoods of the country, and the lead Muppet’s, Kami and Zobi, are teaching life lessons that are relevant to the people of Nigeria: AIDS, malaria nets, gender equality — and yams, a staple of Nigerian meals.
Lead muppet Kami is an orphan with HIV who explains blood safety to children, while her friend Zobi gets entangled in a mosquito net while explaining malaria prevention.
In Tanzania, MNM’s Zinduka! campaign has partnered with Kilimani Sesame to distribute malaria-themed books to all primary schools in the country. The colorful, entertaining books will feature popular Kilimani Sesame characters who stress the importance of practicing malaria prevention at home.
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Mosquitoes Suck!!!
Today is World Mosquito Day and actress Elizabeth Banks has teamed up with MNM to announce “Mosquitoes Suck!”
“I was lucky, I had so many dreams as a kid,” says actress Elizabeth Banks. “Malaria robs more children of their dreams than any single disease in Africa. Yet, you can help change that with a $10 mosquito net.”
Elizabeth has been taking part in a series of PSAs due out this fall for MNM. In concert with the PSAs and World Mosquito Day today, we’re launching Mosquitoes Suck shirts for just $20 – $10 of every shirt sale will come back to us to help buy a anti-malarial mosquito net for someone that needs one.
Join Elizabeth and help us honor World Mosquito Day by announcing Mosquitoes Suck! Get your shirt and match the The 40 Year Old Virgin actress today: http://www.bustedtees.com/malarianomore
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Editor's note: This story is part of a series of online exclusives about natural phenomena and human endeavors we'd like to see come to an end. They are connected with the September 2010 special issue of Scientific American called " The End ".
Mosquitoes that carry the Plasmodium parasite cause some 300 million cases of malaria every year, claiming one million lives. That's a lot of carnage generated by an insect smaller than a pinky fingernail--but if enterprising researchers have their way, their blood-thirsty assault won't continue much longer. Here are some of the most promising strategies for wiping out malaria-carrying mosquitoes:
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Good Riddance to Mosquitoes: Four Ways to Beat the Malaria-Carrying Threat
Editor's note: This story is part of a series of online exclusives about natural phenomena and human endeavors we'd like to see come to an end. They are connected with the September 2010 special issue of Scientific American called " The End ".
Mosquitoes that carry the Plasmodium parasite cause some 300 million cases of malaria every year, claiming one million lives. That's a lot of carnage generated by an insect smaller than a pinky fingernail--but if enterprising researchers have their way, their blood-thirsty assault won't continue much longer. Here are some of the most promising strategies for wiping out malaria-carrying mosquitoes:
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