Hitting malaria where it hurts: household and community responses in
Africa
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id21 insights health #9
Each year at least 300 million cases of malaria result in more than a million deaths worldwide. Ninety percent of these deaths are in sub-Saharan Africa and most are children under five years old.
The latest issue of 'id21 insights health' is edited by Caroline Jones, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, with contributions including:
* Lesong Conteh and Collins Ahorlu examine the barriers to people using insecticide treated bed nets (ITN) in The Gambia and Ghana and call for strategies to support and encourage ITN use.
* Holly Williams highlights the huge problem of malaria among refugees: the most vulnerable, but often forgotten community.
* Vinay Kamat considers how and what treatment mothers in Tanzania seek for their sick children.
* Isaac Nyamongo suggests, using evidence from Kenya, that with appropriate information, health workers and patients can together improve the effectiveness of antimalarial treatment.
* Rose Mwangi describes how in Tanzania malaria is seen as a common illness among adults that carries no shame and can be used to hide more stigmatising health problems.
* Rebecca Marsland illustrates how those that suffer most from malaria in Tanzania have very little social power due to their age or gender.
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Tom Barker
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