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Article

16 Oct 2007

Author:
East African [Kenya]

Kenya: DHL Partners With Unicef Against Malaria

DHL [part of Deutsche Post]...has said it will roll out a global partnership with Unicef to fight malaria and other childhood diseases following the success of a pilot project in Kenya. The pilot project...saw DHL donate more than $280,000 for the purchase of 50,000 mosquito nets as well as the equipping of local health centres with cooling boxes to transport medicine...The World Health Organisation recently cited the distribution of over 3.5 million insecticide-treated nets in Kenya over the past two years as a public health success story...