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2012
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The Pioneer: Faiths Act and Hard Rock Cafe tackle malaria through fashion

Posted on 01/05/2012

Hard Rock Cafe, in collaboration with Tony Blair Faith Foundation, held a fashion show for awareness about a waterborne disease. Ila Sankrityayan spoke to students of the JD Institute of Fashion Technology who designed garments from white and blue bednets on World Malaria Day The fashion show began the usual way, with lights and sound effects. Models were walking the ramp at Hard Rock Cafe, showcasing designer wear. Just one thing was unusual. The material used was mosquito net. Be it in the spiral net dress. Or a net outfit that had wings fixed wings to it.

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Ottawa Citizen: Young activists bring the battle against malaria to Parliament Hill

Posted on 01/05/2012

This article was orginally published in the Ottawa Citizen. OTTAWA — The tangled blue mosquito net has travelled to more than 26 countries, been held by imams, pastors and rabbis, toured synagogues and university campuses — but now it sits in MP Patrick Brown’s office in preparation for today, World Malaria Day. The net was brought to Ottawa by a group of six Canadian youth representing the Tony Blair Faith Foundation and the “Where’s The Net?” campaign.

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Sierra Leone : Good Religion & Good Governance by Tony Blair & Sheikh Abu Bakarr Conteh

Posted on 27/04/2012

The significance of World Malaria Day on 25th April is likely to be different if you live in London or Freetown. For those who live in Sierra Leone it will be a reminder again that malaria is the number one killer of young children. In the UK there may not even be the memory that in the Kent marshes malaria killed whole families in the 18th century. It may not seem relevant. But it is. The names on gravestones in Kent, like the names of children buried in Sierra Leone, each represent a tragic waste of a life.

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Hard Rock Cafe India Hosts Anti-Malaria Bednet Ensembles

Posted on 27/04/2012

The globally recognised house of music and fashion memorabilia, and of course beer, Hard Rock Café, New Delhi plays its CSR part by joining hands with the Tony Blair Faith Foundation to kick start a campaign called ‘The City is Ours’ with a fashion show. The campaign which aims to raise awareness about the health and sanitation issues in Savda Ghera, a slum resettlement colony in Delhi saw a fashion show being organised at the café in collaboration with designers from the J.D Institute – Prachi Rastogi, Priyanka, Ankita, Vaibhav Joshi garments constructed fro

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Malaria Day events around the world

Posted on 25/04/2012

Malaria Day is important both for those inside malaria infected countries and those outside. “For those outside, it draws attention to the catastrophe that this disease can cause. For those inside the country, it highlights the fact malaria can be controlled and shows people how they can protect themselves from it.

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Royal Society of Medicine: Fighting Malaria in Sierra Leone

Posted on 18/04/2012

Josephine Muhairwe is a Ugandan medical doctor. In August 2011 she was selected by the Tony Blair Faith Foundation to lead their multi-faith health messaging programme: Faiths Act in Sierra Leone. Sierra Leone has a population of six million people and just 102 medics but in every village there are churches and mosques. Faiths Act in Sierra Leone is utilising these existing faith networks and infrastructures to turn bed net ownership into bed net usage.

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Report: Global Health and Africa | Assessing Faith Work and Research Priorities

Posted on 16/04/2012

Faith communities, especially at the community level, contribute in countless ways to health care. This report provides a full scale literature review of the role and impact of faith inspired organizations. It finds documentary evidence that they are frequently very effective health providers. It also highlights the extensive research challenge that exists. Since 2008, the Tony Blair Faith Foundation has contributed to the study of faith and globalisation, and supported the implementation of the Millennium Development Goals by faith communities.

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Faiths Act in Sierra Leone

Posted on 16/04/2012

Malaria is the number one killer of children under five and of pregnant women in Sierra Leone. It is a completely preventable disease. But Ministry of Health resources are limited. In a population of 6 million there are only 102 doctors. Despite this the country has prioritised maternal and child health and made free health care available to them. The Faiths Act on Health programme is an innovative, multi-religious, community-based solution to help prevent and reverse the spread of malaria in Sierra Leone.

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Daily Monitor: Faith - An Effective Tool for Fighting Malaria in Africa

Posted on 12/04/2012

Josephine Muhairwe, is a Ugandan Christian medical doctor. In August 2011, she was selected by the Tony Blair Faith Foundation, an interfaith organisation set up by the former British Prime Minister, to build understanding between the different faith groups and to work on a unique multi-faith anti-malaria health campaign in Sierra Leone. This campaign is called Faiths Act in Sierra Leone. Sierra Leone has a population of six million people and just 102 medics. But in every village, there are churches and mosques. Faith leaders have unparalleled reach.

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Pulse: Malaria nets mean the difference between life and death in Uganda

Posted on 12/04/2012

There are few situations in medicine when a single injection is the difference between life and death. Any doctor that was a junior in the days of the 120-hour weeks of the late 1990s knows what it is like to be fast - bleeped to the ward to find a deeply unconscious, insulin-dependent diabetic with a blood sugar of one. I still vividly remember being woken from a deep sleep in the doctors' Mess, running down those long corridors in my scrubs at Ipswich hospital only to find a young adult, sweaty and pale with fixed and dilated pupils.

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