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Africa: Malaria nets

Written bySokari Ekine
Posted 28 April 2006 13:15 GMT

Yebo Gogo reports on an advert on the back pages of the US journal Sports Illustrated that is asking for donations towards the purchase of malaria nets for Africa. He estimates that with a readership of 23 million at $20 each would equal $460 million = 46 million nets!

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