World Malaria Day

Get in the game and join your Washington Wizards in helping to prevent malaria in Africa. NBA Cares and Nothing But Nets need your help to deliver life-saving bed nets to families in Africa. A ten-dollar donation to Nothing But Nets will provide a bed net to protect children and their families from the disease.

April 25, 2008 marks the first World Malaria Day. Malaria, a disease transmitted by mosquitoes, infects more than 500 million people a year and kills more than a million – one child dies every 30 seconds. With your support, the insecticide-laden bed nets will protect children and families from mosquitoes and prevent them from flying on to their next victim.

Send a net. Save a life.

What You Can Do
For just $10, Nothing But Nets can buy a bed net, distribute it to a family, and explain its use. In fact, the bed nets can keep a family safe for up to four years. Nothing But Nets has partnered with the Measles Initiative to deliver the nets to even the most hard-to-reach areas of Africa.

Here are other ways you can help:

  • Start fundraising as an individual or team
  • Become a team member
  • Bring Nothing But Nets to your community

    Learn More
    How the Nets Save Lives
    Interactive Net Distribution Map
    Malaria’s Impact on the World

    For more information on how you can help or participate in the campaign, visit the Nothing But Nets Web at http://www.nothingbutnets.net/

    NBA Cares, a founding partner of the Nothing But Nets campaign, has raised more than $18 million to provide life-saving bed nets to those in need. NBA Cares is the league's social responsibility program that builds on the NBA's long tradition of addressing important social issues in the United States and around the world.