Bednets and Malaria
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Did you know that more than one million lives could be saved an-
nually if insecticide-treated bednets (ITNs) were routinely used
by the populations at greatest risk of malaria? For a short
overview of how ITNs are being used to prevent malaria, read the
latest Global Health Technical Brief - Bednets Reduce Malaria at
http://www.maqweb.org/techbriefs/tb17bednets.shtml
Global Health Technical Briefs summarize the most important in-
formation on a timely health topic (usually related to reproduc-
tive health) in two pages, and pinpoint the implications for
public health programs. Each brief includes background and a
definition of the topic, important recent findings or lessons
learned in program application, implications for programs, and
where to get more information (web site address and/or contact
name/e-mail address).
17 Global Health Technical Briefs have been published in English
since 2004. They cover a range of topics including:
- family planning for postpartum women
- birth spacing
- using private providers for family planning services
- preventing postpartum hemorrhage
- focused antenatal care
- integration of family planning and HIV/AIDS services
- the importance of client provider interaction
- youth and contraception
- abstinence and delayed sexual initiation for youth
- vasectomy and female sterilization
- contraception for women on ARVs
- organizing work better
- the standard days method of natural family planning (also in
French, Spanish)
- contraceptive security
- IUDs (also in French)
If you don't see a topic that interest you, contact Rushna
Ravji, USAID, mailto:rravji@usaid.gov and suggest it.
Global Health Technical Briefs are published by The INFO Project
for USAID and are made available online in both HTML and PDF
format on the MAQ - Maximizing Access and Quality - website at
http://www.maqweb.org/techbriefs/
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