[afro-nets] Mosquito/Malaria Control (7)

[Ally Hussein <ruhettah@yahoo.com>]

Mosquito/Malaria Control (7)
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Hi all!

I would like to share with you about bednets since my organiza-
tion, Ifakara Health Research and Development centre (IHRDC),
has done so many projects on malaria including bednet projects -
here are more details on bednet project results.

"Evaluation of community effectiveness of insecticide treated
nets implemented through social marketing was shown to improve
child survival and reduce malaria and anaemia in children. The
experiences obtained in the project were fed to National Malaria
Control Programme in the development of national strategies for
up scaling the use of the nets and insecticide. The experiences
obtained during the implementation of insecticides treated nets
through social marketing have shown that nets reduces 27% of
mortality and 60% of malaria infections and increase coverage in
most vulnerable groups, mainly infants and pregnant women
through voucher scheme".(IHRDC 2005)

Well, it has also been established that anopheles Gambiae nor-
mally are active in the midnight rather than early evening.
That's why people are advised to use (ITNs) insecticides treated
nets during the night so that they can't get in touch with
Anopheles.

During the research process most of the mosquitoes captured from
7:00 pm - 11:00 pm were other types and from 12:00 midnight
anopheles gambiae was captured. That's why after long time of
research, the researcher concluded that anopheles bite people in
the midnight.

Thanks.

Yours,

Ally Hussein (BA edu,hons)
Library and Documentation Manager
Ifakara Health Research and Development Centre
P.O.Box 53
Ifakara, Morogoro, Tanzania
Mobile: +255-744897325
Office: +255-23-262-5164
Fax: +255-23-262-5312
mailto:ruhettah@yahoo.com
http://www.ihrdc.org