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Slide __: Why is this issue a global one? What is the main problem?__ Malaria is one of the most important tropical diseases in the world, the remaining widespread throughout the tropics, but also occurring in many temperate regions. It also takes a heavy toll of illness and death - especially among children and pregnant women. Treatment and control have become more difficult with the spread of drug-resistant strains of malaria. Malaria has become a global problem for many reasons. One of the reasons is that in the non civilized area, there are 105 countries that was found, and is responsible for over **300 million** clinical cases and more than a million deaths each year. The disease was in the process of being eliminated in some regions. But over the past few decades, rebirth of malaria is being witnessed. We must do what can to prevent this   __ Slide __: How is this issue affecting the world? Malaria is striking in countries all over the world. Yes you may think, but at least it’s contained in those certain countries, but in truth, cases have been spread through immigration and domestic travel. Malaria is being spread around the world, ever so slowly, but it’s a start that we don’t need. We have to try and prevent malaria in these countries, and stop malaria from spreading outside these boundaries. We have to remove malaria before it grows into a tumor. Slide ___: What is being done to stop, prevent or fix this issue?__ Nations worldwide have noticed this issue, and are worried about both themselves and their fellow countries. Some things that are being done to stop and prevent this issue are things like, checked immigration, checking for any diseases before letting them through, organizations have been raising funds to help pay for malaria medication and different forms of malaria research. Mosquito nets are also being set up around Africa, reducing the amount of caught malaria every year, and lastly, research have been doing what they can to deal with immune strains of malaria and also from preventing them. __ Slide ___ Images that help depict (show) your topic. (Write down the image description and what slide it is on- these should be throughout this section):
 * Part One: Background (opening based on persuasive paragraph and reflection question about your issues in general) **
 * Part Two: Case Study (the specific area you choose to focus on) **

Every year, malaria kills nearly 2 million people and infects 400 to 500 million, according to the World Health Organization. Ninety percent of these deaths occur in sub-Saharan Africa, but the disease is present in more than 100 countries and in nearly every tropical area.

Australian researchers thought that they have found a cure to this devastated disease. To see if they're right, they have to test it, so they did the test on themselves. And that's precisely what they are doing - injecting live malaria parasites into their veins. And that's what it looks like when you inject malaria into your body.

Every thirty seconds, a child dies from malaria.

Slide ___: Background on your specific area; this should include specific statistics and quotes on your topic.__ > __ Slide ___: Why did you choose this topic? Malaria mainly strikes poor and rural communities. Patients are often bedridden for days and can't carry out normal daily activities. Children who survived the disease may suffer neurological damage and educational difficulties. The result can be a loss of income and a burden on families, health systems and society as a whole. This suffering and loss of life are unnecessary. Malaria is largely preventable, detectable and treatable. That's why we chose to focus on malaria. Slide ___: Links to You Tubes and/or videos related to your topic. List them here.__ http://video.google.com/videosearch?hl=en&q=malaria&gbv=2&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=iv#q http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=571810574938
 * Malaria is one of the planet's deadliest diseases and one of the leading causes of sickness and death in the developing world. According to the World Health Organization there are 300 to 500 million clinical cases of malaria each year resulting in 1.5 to 2.7 million deaths.
 * Children aged one to four are the most vulnerable to infection and death. Malaria is responsible for as many as half the deaths of African children under the age of five. The disease kills more than one million children - 2,800 per day - each year in Africa alone. In regions of intense transmission, 40% of toddlers may die of acute malaria.
 * About 40% of the world's population, about two billion people - are at risk in about 90 countries and territories. 80 to 90% of malaria deaths occur in sub-Saharan Africa where 90% of the infected people live.
 * Sub-Saharan Africa is the region with the highest malaria infection rate. Here alone, the disease kills at least one million people each year. According to some estimates, 275 million out of a total of 530 million people have malaria parasites in their blood, although they may not develop symptoms.
 * Of the four human malaria strains, Plasmodium falciparum is the most common and deadly form. It is responsible for about 95% of malaria deaths worldwide and has a mortality rate of 1-3%.
 * In the early 1960s, only 10% the world's population was at risk of contracting malaria. This rose to 40% as mosquitoes developed resistance to pesticides and malaria parasites developed resistance to treatment drugs. Malaria is now spreading to areas previously free of the disease.
 * Malaria kills 8,000 Brazilians yearly - more than AIDS and cholera combined.
 * There were 483 reported cases of malaria in Canada in 1993, according to Health Canada and approximately 431 in 1994. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the United States received reports of 910 cases of malaria in 1992 and seven of those cases were acquired there. In 1970, reported malaria cases in the U.S. were 4,247 with more than 4,000 of the total being U.S. military personnel.
 * According to material from Third World Network Features, in Africa alone, direct and indirect costs of malaria amounted to US $800 million in 1987 and are expected to reach US $1.8 billion annually by 1995.

__ Slide ___: What organization is working on this issue that you chose to focus on? We chose to focus on this organization, AMREF, because they are focusing on the woman's pregnancy.

Slide ___: What exactly are they doing to try and combat or change the issue?__

The A. M. R. E. F. are trying to understand the meaning of malaria and how it can be solved, because they want to help and save the people from dying from this devastated disease. They are also accessing to an accurate, early diagnostic services and effective treatment as close to their home as possible, so they can easily save them from danger. The organization is also trying to lower their risk of getting malaria by: through personal and community measures, especially like those long-lasting insecticidal nets and anti-malarial medication, particularly for pregnant women and children. They are also making women who are pregnant to eat or use vitamins to help and give them strengths when they are going through their pregnancy. __ Slide ___: What are some of the things you like about their program? We had liked this particular organization because they are trying to save the next generation kids. This organization uses vitamins to help control the women’s pregnancy. By doing this, the outcome of this situation is that the babies will get a healthy body as well this would solve the problem or decrease the infant mortality. Interactive Activity- This should be related to your case study and involve audience members in order to educate them more on your topic. Describe your activity here and write down any questions you will ask the group. You should have the questions or directions on your power point. Slide _ __– Overall Idea__ Getting people to realize how dangerous malaria is, and how common it is.
 * Part Three: Interactive Activity **

__ Slide ____- Directions__ __ Slide ___- Directions Pick certain number of people, and say that one will die from malaria, then switch the odds and say they were in africa and 1 in ... no of people die each year. How do you plan to become involved with your organization or model your action plan after it? What do you propose to do? This should be either raising awareness Or doing something (signing a petition, donations, organizing a performance...). Slide ___: What is your organization (name of your group)?__ The name of our group is called the H. F. M. which stands for How to Fight Malaria.
 * Before you proceed to Part Four, you must get your teacher to sign that your interactive activity plan is sufficient. **
 * Teacher signature: _ **
 * Part Four: Action Plan: **

What is the aim or purpose- Why are you doing this action?  We think that malaria is a the rising infectious disease that it creating a major death toll in South Africa, and not just that but it is curable but there are many who cannot afford the medication. We would like to help these people who have not been given as much as us.

__ Slide ____: The message- Why should people be informed about this issue?__  Not many people are aware of this great danger of malaria, and the effect it has on the people, as many can afford the medication and people should acknowledge and even try to help this major issue

__ Slide ___: What is a short-term plan for achieving your goal (keep it simple and don’t be too ambitious- again make sure you CAN actually do this)? To learn more about malaria for ourselves, thinking of possible ways to get people to join our organization, thinking of ways to raise money, possible solutions to avoid malaria and writing an article about the danger of malaria. Writing posts and putting up pictures about malaria.

Slide ___: What is a long-term plan for achieving your goal?__ Setting up a fund raiser, spreading the awareness, writing letters to the South African governments about malaria, putting up some posters.

__ Slide ___: What information does your Wiki contain to let people know about this? The basics about malaria, the impact malaria has on countries and what's being done to stop it. Slide ___: Make a list of organizations/petitions that people can join to get involved in this issue.__

UMCOR is an organization that allows you to donate money. AED conducts education campaigns and partners with governments and private companies in sub-Saharan Africa to increase the commercial supply of and public demand for insecticide-treated nets. MNM, Malaria No More, aims to end malaria deaths by engaging individuals, organizations, and corporations to provide insecticide-treated nets and other interventions to people at risk of the disease. PAHO, an international public health agency working to improve the health and living standards of the countries of the Americas, serves as the specialized organization for health of the Inter-American System and as the Regional Office for the Americas for WHO. PAHO provides information on malaria surveillance, control and prevention. This Web site aims to educate policymakers about effective malaria control programs and strategies by highlighting successful efforts and evidence-based results. __

Slide ___: Reflect on how your action plan is going? What have you done already, how have you modified it and/or what is your time line? We are making some good progress. I mean, we started to put up posters outside of the school, but not inside though. We posted a few on the streets as well as malls. We also have been handing out fliers to people that have been passing by. We're planning to do this until next tuesday; February 17th, 2009, but we'll stat handing out fliers when we have build our lemonade stand. So that's how far we're at with our plan. Slide ___: Why is this important? Why should you care about this and work towards solving this topic?__  Malaria destroys lives, and destroys families. The world needs to start fighting it, start from nothing, if we have to. Why should we care? Imagine, if you had a kid, and he was dying from malaria. Lets say it is a normal strain of malaria. The medication is available, but money is not, and all you can do is watch your kid suffer and die.  This is why we care, and would like to help at least save some lives.
 * Part Four: Conclusion **

__ Slide ____: Why should other people do something?__  Malaria is caused by four species of parasites and transmitted through the bite of infected mosquitoes. Symptoms include fever, headache, vomiting and flu-like symptoms, followed by internal bleeding, kidney and liver failure and can result in coma and death. Children account for 75 percent of malaria-related deaths. If we don't something about this issue, than we all would possibly get malaria and that's not what we want at all. __ Slide __: Make sure to leave them thinking and inspired to do something themselves!  Malaria kills around 320 Africans every day, and accounts for the highest percentage of the total number of patients being visited to the hospitals. There is more money and political will to tackle the disease as observed in the recent creation of the Global Fund for Malaria and HIV/AIDs. However, funds alone will not solve the problem because it is a complex disease and controlling it means that we must use all interventions and those partners must work together.

It is important therefore that if there are lots of people working together, they must be open and transparent. They must also explain how they are going to control the disease and what they are doing to measure success. If they don <span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">’t <span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> do a proper baseline survey and monitor progress, how do we know that they are making progress? How can people change strategies and improve interventions if they aren’t <span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">monitoring?

Make sure to cite all of your sources, including photos. http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2007/07/malaria/finkel-text__ http://www.cdc.gov/travel/malinfo.htm http://www.javno.com/en/related-topics/index.php?q=malaria http://www.javno.com/en/lifestyle/clanak.php?id=54914 http://www.malaria.org/ click here to go back.
 * Part Five: Works Cited **