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 Fighting The War On Malaria Worldwide

   We are so proud of our 2011 projects;    
           Pacific Partnership 2011

With the collection of a lot of spare change from our Programs; Pennies For Nets and Musicians For Nets we were able to donate some much needed survey equipment to the Pacific Partnership 2011 humanitarian project this Spring and Summer in the South Pacific.

Members of the American, Australian, and New Zealander Navies are using your survey equipment to educate the locals in ways to detect and eradicate malaria in Vanuatu, and Papua New Guinea, just the way that the original Skeeter Beaters did in 1942.

Thank you to everyone that has helped! We are currently raising funds for Amazon 2011, please help out!

  

PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP 2011 VANUATU, Papua New Guinea
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The top left photo is:
 
Lt. Laurel Cutter, USN member of US Navy Medical Team collecting mosquito larva samples in stagnant water near medical facility in Fanafo, Vanuatu. Lt. Cutter is participating in Malaria Control Survey efforts with Pacific Partnership 2011.
Locating Anopheles larvae breeding sites allows team members to destroy the larvae before they become feeding adult Anopheles mosquitoes and deadly Malaria vectors.
Killing mosquito larvae reduces the incidence of malaria cases  just like it was done by the USN Skeeter Beater Malaria Control Unit #1 in 1942 in the same South Pacific Islands.
(Photo - Kristopher Radder for Pacific Partnership 2011)
 
The next 4 pictures...
 
Environmental Health Officer - Flying Officer Kylie Gosling, Royal Australian Air Force
Working alongside military and civilian volunteers with Pacific Partnership 2011, Flying Officer Kylie Gosling demonstrates the use of a backpack sprayer for Malaria Control efforts around the buildings of the Medical facility in Fanafo, Vanuatu.
Backpack sprayers were the weapon of choice of the original Skeeter Beaters of USN Malaria Control Unit #1 to eradicate adult female Anopheles Mosquitoes -the transmitter of the deadly Malaria virus.
"Sometimes the best ways are still the old ways," Howard Vance, USN MCU#1, South Pacific 1942-1945.
 
 USN personnel demonstrate the use of a portable insecticide fogger to eliminate deadly mosquito vector in and around the village of Ngag Ngag, Vanuatu.

LAE, Papua New Guinea (May 27, 2011) Hospital Corpsman 1st Class Allan Santos sprays pesticide at the Tent City medical civic action project during the Papua New Guinea phase of Pacific Partnership 2011. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Tony Tolley)
 


Imagine the coverage possible with an old pickup with  truck mounted fogger on the back? Next year, SBF will do our best to include a truck and mounted fogger for PP12!
 
 
 
 
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