“When considering grand plans for effective communicable disease control in this time of Ebola peril, malaria continues to kill nearly a million people a year world-wide, and by far the single most reliable protection against malaria is to sleep under a mosquito net, but one of the major impediments to this basic and effective malaria control is that many people, regardless of education level or country of origin, in malaria endemic zones don't install and use one, not that they can't get one, but because they don't think the mosquito net 'looks nice.” Human NatureAfricaMalariaEbolaDisease Prevention Author:T.K. Naliaka
“To paraphrase Lucretius, there's nothing more useful than to watch a man or woman in times of contagious deadly disease peril combined with his or her assumptions of financial adversity to discern what kind of man or woman they really are.” CharacterMoneyMoralityDiseaseEthicsAdversityGenerosityInsecurityMoralsPerilContagiousPublic HealthDisease PreventionLucretius Author:T.K. Naliaka
“Les moustiques porteurs du paludisme n’attendront pas poliment jusqu’à ce que les gens se couchent sous des moustiquaires” Common SensePublic HealthMosquitoesMalariaDisease ControlDisease PreventionMosquito Net Author:T.K. Naliaka
“Malaria-hosting mosquitoes will not wait politely during their most active evening feeding hours for people to go to bed under mosquito nets.” Public HealthMalariaDisease PreventionMalaria EradicationMosquito NetPrevention Of Diseases In Africa Author:T.K. Naliaka
“Shovels aren't very glamorous, but they've been liberating entire communities from malaria for the past 5,000 years.” AfricaPublic HealthMalariaDisease PreventionMalaria EradicationVector Control Author:T.K. Naliaka