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- noun Plural form of
bednet .
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Examples
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We will start with one of the simplest but most effective weapons against this disease: bednets.
The UK will do all it can to make malaria a thing of the past | Andrew Mitchell 2011
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The UK will oversee a massive increase in the number of bednets, targeting them especially at women and children.
The UK will do all it can to make malaria a thing of the past | Andrew Mitchell 2011
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We will do this by increasing the number of bednets used by women and children; improving the diagnosis and treatment of malarial; and strengthening health information systems to better monitor progress and target interventions.
Malaria kills twice as many people as previously thought, research finds 2012
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Through the Global Fund to fight Aids, TB and Malaria, we are contributing to the distribution of 110m bednets in the developing world.
The UK will do all it can to make malaria a thing of the past | Andrew Mitchell 2011
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But, he says, a substantial amount of malaria is still being transmitted outside the home, far from bednets or other protections.
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Mr. Chambers, too, knew little about malaria before jumping into the fight against the disease, and his strategy has been to shower Africans with free bednets donated by foreign powers.
Man Versus Mosquito Sonia Shah 2011
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Still, by December 2010, with countdown clocks ticking on their desks, Mr. Chambers's team had overseen the financing and distribution of a staggering 289 million bednets, an achievement that Mr. Perry calls "one of the most successful aid campaigns of all time."
Man Versus Mosquito Sonia Shah 2011
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We're variously told that treated bednets reduce child mortality by 20% or by 40%; that they can exterminate all mosquitoes in a given area; even that they can eradicate malaria all by themselves.
Man Versus Mosquito Sonia Shah 2011
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Stefan Sollfors/Science Faction/Corbis Distributing 3.3. billion insecticide-laced bednets by year's end is ambitious, but will it stop malaria?
Man Versus Mosquito Sonia Shah 2011
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Dr. Okumu explains that, thanks to the widespread use of bednets, insecticides, drugs, and rapid testing kits, malaria transmission has dropped substantially in sub-Saharan Africa, by as much as 50 percent in some countries.
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