Growing up in Cameroon, footballer Samuel Eto'o contracted malaria and lost friends to it. But even against these odds,.
Global Fund Social Media Toolkit Samuel Eto’o: I Beat Malaria
Growing up in Cameroon, footballer Samuel Eto’o contracted malaria and lost friends to it. But even against these odds, Samuel beat malaria and became the most decorated footballer in African history. If we end malaria for good, we can give millions more children the chance to grow up and live their dreams #Showup with Global Citizen in Montreal on September 17, for a concert to support the end of AIDS, TB and malaria. #EndItForGood www.globalcitizen.org/canada Download the films in French with English subtitles (versions for Facebook, Twitter and Instagram): http://bit.ly/2c2inA1 YouTube (French with English subtitles): https://youtu.be/sDPdkxn7Kas
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Facebook / Instagram Growing up in Cameroon, footballer Samuel Eto’o contracted malaria and lost friends to it. But even against these odds, Samuel beat malaria and became the most decorated footballer in African history. If we end malaria for good, we can give millions more children the chance to grow up and live their dreams. #Showup with Global Citizen in Montreal on September 17, for a concert to support the end of AIDS, TB and malaria. #EndItForGood www.globalcitizen.org/canada
Pendant son enfance au Cameroun, le footballeur Samuel Eto’o a contracté le paludisme, qui a emporté certains de ses amis. Mais il a pu surmonter cette situation difficile, vaincre la maladie et devenir le footballeur africain le plus titré de tous les temps. Nous pouvons en finir pour de bon avec le paludisme et donner à des millions d’enfants supplémentaires la chance de grandir et de réaliser leurs rêves. Engagez-vous avec Global Citizen à Montréal le 17 septembre, pour un concert qui appelle à agir pour mettre fin au sida, à la tuberculose et au paludisme. #EnFinirPourDeBon www.globalcitizen.org/canada
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Twitter Samuel Eto’o (@setoo9) beat #malaria & grew to become the most decorated African footballer in history. #EndItForGood “#Malaria did not beat me. Let’s not let it beat others. Together we can #EnditForGood” -Samuel Eto’o (@setoo9)
Samuel Eto’o (@setoo9) a vaincu #paludisme, devenu footballeur africain plus titré de l’histoire. #EnFinirPourDeBon «Le #paludisme ne m’a pas vaincu. Ensemble, nous pouvons #EnFinirPourDeBon» -Samuel Eto’o (@setoo9)
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Key Points - Malaria and Youth •
The burden of malaria is overwhelmingly borne by children in poor countries
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Approximately 70 percent of malaria cases are children under the age of five
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Malaria still kills a child somewhere in the world every 2 minutes
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Since 2000, the number of deaths among children under 5 has fallen by 60 percent, resulting in an estimated 6.1
million deaths have been averted. •
Almost 50 percent of all people at risk for malaria in sub-Saharan Africa had access to an insecticide-treated mosquito net in 2013, an increase from 3 percent in 2004.
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The Global Fund works with communities to ensure young children and pregnant women in particular are protected by mosquito nets
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