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Seoul City, UN Foundation agree to send mosquito nets for malaria prevention

One African family can be helped with just one mosquito net worth about $10. Therefore, the Seoul Metropolitan Government has set out to donate insecticidal mosquito nets to Africa, where as many as 3,000 people die from malaria per day. Seoul City and the United Nations Foundation signed an agreement on Aug. 22 to participate in the “Nets Go! Campaign,” a drive devoted to collecting mosquito nets to send to Africa for malaria prevention.

The “Nets Go! Campaign” is the Korean version established by the United Nations Foundation in 2006, which is an emulation of the “Nothing But Nets” program of the United States. Since its inception in Korea, the campaign has aimed to eliminate malaria in Africa, the leading cause of deaths on that continent.