Mandy Moore, U.N. Raise $1.2 Million for African Mosquito Nets

In 2009, actor and singer Mandy Moore saw the life-and-death role a mosquito net could play in the war on malaria in southern Sudan.

“I slept under a net,” Moore, 26, said in a phone interview from Los Angeles, where she lives. “Every 45 seconds a child dies of malaria, and it’s totally preventable.”