In Papua New Guinea, Malaria is a fact of life for the average person and sees more than 1.2 million struck down each year. Our aim is to halve both the morbidity and mortality of malaria over the next five years.
This is where we hope that you will help. We have a programme that
sees Rotary Clubs, private sector organisations and individuals
"Adopt a Village". We have broken the whole country into "Bite Size"
chunks so that a small village may cost $1,000, a medium size village
may cost $2,000 and a large village may cost $3,000.
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Current Target District:Kairuku - Hiri[Central Province] Villages in this District |
Malaria is a potentially fatal blood disease caused by a parasite that is transmitted to human and animal hosts by the Anopheles mosquito.
The human parasite, Plasmodium falciparum, is dangerous not only be cause it digests the red blood cell's hemoglobin, but also because it changes the adhesive properties of the cell it inhabits.
This change in turn causes the cell to stick to the walls of blood vessels. It becomes especially dangerous when the infected blood cells stick to the capillaries in the brain, obstructing blood flow,
a condition called cerebral malaria. Scientists using the x-ray microscope are hoping to learn more about the how the parasite infects and disrupts the blood cells and the blood vessels of an infected host.