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Help to Raise Awareness of a Treatable Disease/Win a Journalist Trip To Kenya
Jul-272009
This summer, our Agency is helping to promote the “World Briefing: Telling the Malaria Story” contest, sponsored by Novartis and Malaria No More, a non-governmental organization committed to ending malaria deaths in Africa.
Malaria is a highly preventable and treatable disease – yet each year, malaria infects nearly 300 million people and kills nearly one million, mostly children under the age of five in sub-Saharan Africa. Every 30 seconds a child dies from malaria. But with awareness and the right tools, like insecticide-treated nets and medication, malaria deaths and suffering can be reduced.
To encourage future leaders to think about malaria and inform their peers about the disease, we’re asking undergraduate university students in the U.S. to develop a 500 word-or-less personal statement and 140 character-or-less Twitter entry (“Tweet”) focused on why it’s important to keep neglected diseases like malaria in the news. For full entry details, please see the attached contest guidelines and background.
The winning student will take a trip to Nairobi, Kenya with Novartis, where he/she will report live from the global Multilateral Initiative on Malaria (MIM) Pan-African Malaria Conference from November 2-6, 2009. This is an outstanding opportunity to meet African and international journalists covering global health issues, and attend presentations led by top malaria researchers. For a meaningful on-the-ground experience, the student will also travel to local clinics, meet healthcare workers, and speak to patients, which will open his or her eyes to vital malaria and control efforts. While in Africa, the student will be asked to write about this experience and blog live, giving him/her the chance to post insights on malarianomore.org and Twitter—learning and reporting in real-time.
For more information, attached please find the entry guidelines and background on the contest and visit: www.MalariaNoMore.org/WorldBriefing. We hope you share this unique opportunity with students, professors, academic advisors, family, friends, and alumni groups, among others in touch with undergraduates as the contest will be open for entries from Monday, July 13th through Friday, August 21, 2009.
If you have questions, please e-mail Rachel Alkon at enter@malariacontest.com.
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