Sleep shop chain Got Sleep?, which is owned by Sacramento, California-based Sleep Train, announced that to date it has donated more than 750 insecticide-treated bed nets for the prevention of malaria in Africa. The retailer partnered with the Nothing But Nets campaign, www.nothingbutnets.net, in the fall of 2013. The campaign was founded in 2006 and is sponsored by the United Nations Foundation. Mosquito-borne malaria is a leading killer of African children, causing one death every 60 seconds. Most infectious bites occur during sleep and distribution of bed nets during the past decade has decreased deaths from malaria by one-third. Got Sleep? said it will continue to donate two bed nets for every mattress set purchased.
May 1, 2014
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