What can we do to impove the situation

What can we do to impove the situation?

• • • What exactly is Malaria? Where does it exist mainly? The Problems The Organisations What can we do against it? Interesting Facts Time for Questions Sources End

• Malaria is a fever-disease transmitted by mosquitos • In the first stadium it can easily be confused with a normal chill • There are several types of malaria

• There are three types of malaria -Malaria tertiana incubation time: 8 to 20 days classic remittent fever, 2 days fever, 1 day without fever -Malaria quartana incubation time: 3 to 7 weeks classic remittent fever, 2 days without fever -Malaria tropica incubation time: 7 to 14 days irregular „fever-periods“

• As the map will show malaria is a big problem basically in the whole middle of Africa!

• It cannot always be diagnosed early enough • Some of the pharmaceuticals don‘t have an effect any more because the causative organisms are already immune • The people don‘t have money to pay the pharmaceutical • Sometimes there are even not enough of the pills to cure them • Unhygienic conditions • Not enough hospitals • Some people don‘t want to recognize that they are ill • It is nearly impossible to eliminate it

And many others…

• You can buy a net in the web. For approximately 10 $ you can administer a mosquito-net to save a human‘s life as the mosquitos are mainly active at night • Put a banner on your website! The more people know about the situation, the better it is! • Donate money to officially and serious organisations like “Ärzte ohne Grenzen“, even if it is not inevitable used for malaria-victims, the money will definitely help people to have a better life

• Did you know that only female mosquitos are jabbing? • Even in Germany we have around 1000 cases of malaria a year • Malaria is one of the oldest diseases in the world • Recently, the number of malariavictims jumped up to 3. 000 a day! • Malaria is a problem of about 90 states in the world

• http: //dgk. de/gesundheit/impfeninfektionskrankheiten/krankheiten-von-a-bisz/malaria. html • http: //www. stopmalarianow. org/onlinebanner. html • http: //www. malaria. org/ • http: //www. lbl. gov/Science-Articles/Archive/sb -PBD-anti-malarial. html • http: //www. ecoimperialism. com/content/article. php 3? id=199