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Deadliest Itch: Malaria Awareness Mosquito-Mosaic Posters

The other day, we established that we’re all African. Fitting, since today we’re looking at one of the coolest awareness campaigns we’ve seen in a long while, which happens to address Africa’s most serious malady: Mosquitoes.

And if you think we’re kidding, or making an awful joke that belittles the AIDS epidemic or genocide, we’re not — every year, mosquito-carried malaria takes more children’s lives in Africa than all other diseases combined. In Sub-Saharan Africa, 3,000 children die from malaria every day.

So African nonprofit África Directo unleashed a brilliant campaign to make this simple point so powerfully:

Mosquito PSA

Mosquito PSA

“Nothing and no one takes more lives than malaria”

Mosquito PSA

The portraits are, of course, composed entirely of mosquitoes — a stencil technique that puts Banksy to shame.

Mosquito PSA

Out of Spainish agency Sra. Rushmore.

via Arab Aquarius


Published October 1, 2008

https://www.themarginalian.org/2008/10/01/malaria-awareness/

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