他们为疟疾对抗赛增添实力[视频]
(2016-04-01 11:09:11)美国国家篮球协会(National Basketball Association)超级明星斯蒂芬·库里(Steph Curry)即便离开球场,脑子里也仍然惦记着net(网)。
但这个net不是篮网,而是预防疟疾的蚊帐(英文词同是net)。
在过去四个赛季中,库里每投进一个三分球,就捐赠三顶蚊帐(英文网页)。这位超级明星与欧巴马总统联手,为“总统抗疟疾行动计划”(President’s Malaria Initiative.)助战。
这项行动计划已经:
- 为非洲撒哈拉以南地区人民送去1400万多顶抗疟疾保健康的蚊帐。
- 与赞比亚和柬埔寨政府以及伙伴机构组织合作,制定致力于不久在那些地方根除疟疾病的计划。
- 作出向塞拉利昂、科特迪瓦和喀麦隆提供2亿美元新资助的提案,将行动计划扩大到非洲22个国家。
自从2000年以来,这样的健卫行动计划帮助将疟疾造成的婴儿死亡率减少了一半。
Upping their game to fight malaria [video]
Even when he leaves the court, National Basketball Association superstar Stephen Curry has nets on his mind.
Lifesaving anti-malarial nets, that is.
For the past four seasons, Curry has
Already, the initiative has:
- Provided more than 14 million anti-malarial bed nets to keep people safe in sub-Saharan Africa.
- Worked with the governments of Zambia and Cambodia, as well as partner organizations, on plans to eradicate the disease in those nations in the near future.
- Proposed
$200 million in new funding for Sierra Leone, Côte d’Ivoire and
Cameroon, expanding the initiative to
22 countries in Africa.
Since 2000, health initiatives like these have helped cut malaria’s
child-mortality rate in
half.