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Me too. I even liked him in Jekyll. ;)

i like him in cold feet

I guess everybody else would throw him out of bed. ;)

Maybe somebody will read his article about malaria prevention, though. It's worth it.

I mean, the James Nesbitt you see when you watch TV. ;)

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/7772488/James-Nesbitt-in-Guinea-for-Unicef.html

James Nesbitt in Guinea for Unicef
The solution to malaria couldn't be more simple; but, as James Nesbitt discovers, things are rarely simple in Africa.

It’s midday and, for a pale boy from Northern Ireland, almost unbearably hot. In front of me is a group of 80 African women, some heavily pregnant, others carrying young babies, strapped to their backs with a papoose.

We’re in the courtyard of a health centre in south Guinea and the women are queuing up to see a nurse and pick up a mosquito net.

Malaria is the biggest killer of children under five in Guinea and the nets form a vital defence. It’s quite simple, I’ve been told: children whose families have the nets normally survive, those who don’t get sick and die.

I watch as, one by one, the women file into a room, see the nurse, hand over their children for an examination and collect a net, folded up in a blue protective Unicef bag.

[they run out of nets]

I feel useless – a common reaction to events in Guinea – but I’m told there is nothing we can do. As we drive away I wonder: ‘What will happen to them? What will happen to their children?’

[lots more in the very interesting article]

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Good for him for doing this work and publicizing the need. Malaria and the inexpensive things that can be done to prevent it need to be as well-publicized and well-funded as Africa's HIV/AIDS problem.

And for alluding to Graham Greene novels. ;)