Help me donate to fight measles in developing nations!

In 2000, before the Measles & Rubella Initiative formed, more than 535,000 children worldwide died from measles each year.
Measles is a highly-contagious virus, spread by contact with an infected person through coughing and sneezing. When one person has measles, 90 percent of the people they come into close contact with will become infected, if they are not already immune. Being immune means someone has been vaccinated or has previously contracted the disease. The symptoms include a high fever, severe skin rash and cough.
Measles does not cause death directly, but it weakens the immune system and opens the door to secondary health problems, such as pneumonia, blindness, diarrhea, and encephalitis. Approximately 30 percent of reported measles cases have one or more complications. These debilitating effects are most common in children under five and adults over twenty. Poor children are more likely to be malnourished and have severe complications from measles. Even if a child recovers, he or she can be left with permanent disabilities.
While significant progress has been made thanks to the Measles & Rubella Initiative and its supporters, measles still kills an estimated 139,300 each year – mostly children less than five years of age. That means approximately 380 die from measles-related complications each day. Yet measles can be completed prevented with two doses of a safe, effective and inexpensive vaccine.
Rubella is another disease the Measles & Rubella Initiative is now addressing. Rubella is generally a mild disease but can have serious consequences for pregnant women and their children. If infected with rubella in the first trimester women have a very high risk of giving birth to a child with Congenital Rubella Syndrome (CRS). CRS often presents in multiple birth defects including as heart problems, deafness and blindness. An estimated 110,000 children are born with CRS each year. The lifelong complications and disabilities can have an immeasurable emotional, social and financial cost for families. Like measles, rubella can be prevented with a safe, effective and inexpensive vaccine. This can be delivered as a rubella vaccine alone, or combined with measles vaccine (MR) or with measles and mumps vaccines (MMR).
In many developing countries, parents do not have access to immunization services that could protect their children from this fate. Factors such as poverty, poor health systems and a lack of information can make it difficult for families to secure preventative vaccinations for each of their children.
The risk also remains in developed nations. Although measles was eliminated from the Western Hemisphere in 2002 and endemic rubella has not been detected in the Americas since 2009, outbreaks can occur when unvaccinated residents are exposed to infected people, mostly through international travel.
Measles and rubella and CRS, however, are entirely preventable. Learn more about measles and rubella and contribute to the solution.

I am an active member of my American Red Cross chapter. For every click on the ads on top of my blog, I will donate 100% of all proceeds to the Measles' Initiative. You DO NOT HAVE TO PAY A CENT. JUST CLICK ON THE AD.

For every $100 raised, I will select and award 1 member with an account upgrade or $5.00 who posts on this thread saying "donated!"

Here is the blog: http://www.royrebirth.org/donate

Instructions:

If you have any questions, please ask! If you could ask your friends to do so as well, that would be great. I'll have someone make a small image advertising it if you want to put it in your signature. I appreciate it guys.

I MADE A FACEBOOK PAGE. LIKE AND SHARE WITH FRIENDS AND TELL THEM TO HELP OUT TOO!

http://www.facebook.com/pages/RoyRebirth/269969658434?ref=tn_tnmn
Mind liking and sharing with a few friends?
Progress Bar:
$129.05

Proof of last month's donation:

This is my receipt for donating $100 at Metropolitan Ministries, a non-profit organization that has provided millions of impoverished individuals with amenities like food, clothing, and other services.

This money was raised through Tumblr, by people clicking on my ads. Please keep doing so! This month, I am raising money for the American Red Cross’s Measles Initiative.

Please note that I am not trying to advertise anything. I merely want to help raise money against this disease. If I am breaking any rules, please infract accordingly or move this elsewhere.​

 

[Godzrs]

Done.

 

[Govind]

This is allowed.

 

[Roody Poo]

How do we donate? Can we give you gp for example and you sell it to convert to cash or what?

 

How do we donate? Can we give you gp for example and you sell it to convert to cash or what?

Simple, my friend! You merely click on the ads on top of the blog. Here are instructions:

 

[Quatakai]

Done, goodluck with this Roy

 

Thanks guys! Updated progress bar.

 

[Laptop65]

I can't bear to imagine this not being allowed . I've clicked the advertisement at the top.

 

Thanks guys! Updated.

 

[Cicak Mage]

Done mate, it's a very nice thing your doing here, helping those in need.

 

[ForexBank]

Done, nice job you're doing there, I'll ask more people to do it 2.

 

[Slinkster]

Done

 

[theGuitarist]

I believe I just did (ad-choices right?)

Anyways this is a great cause that you are doing. I'll spread the word whenever I can.

 

[thatguy1234]

did that shawty

 

[tootell]

Done your doing a good thing..

 

[Instagram]

Just clicked a couple of times if that helps, best of luck mate

 

[Alma Mater]

donated.

 

I really appreciate all of your help

This is my receipt for donating $100 at Metropolitan Ministries, a non-profit organization that has provided millions of impoverished individuals with amenities like food, clothing, and other services.

This money was raised through Tumblr last month, by people clicking on my ads. Please keep doing so! This month, I am raising money for the American Red Cross’s Measles Initiative.

 

[GodGenesis]

Done so! Glad to see good people here.

 

[runtkirk3]

the ad at the top had 3 links in them:

i wasnt sure if i had to click them all or just one for it to work so i click them all