It is within our power to save, perhaps, a million of our fellow citizens by helping to provide mosquito netting to people in the world's most poverty-afflicted areas.

People who will always be anonymous to us are suffering and in need, ignored and left alone. It is possible to help them.

Societies with the resources sufficient to create sound public health systems can survive and thrive. Societies lacking those resources risk catastrophic assaults on health, which can result in their total annihilation.

"BedNets Now!" calls to people around the world to listen to the mandates of their own faith and to see the simple fact that ending malaria in the poorest regions of the world is "do-able" and should be done.

The One World Against Malaria Campaign aims to unlock the enormous potential of faith institutions in Africa by providing support and resources.

In my memory, those night-time mosquitoes didn't zzzziinngg around the room, they screamed in my ear.