Sentences with phrase «impregnated bed nets»

Fortunately, deaths due to falciparum malaria in the tropics, particularly Tropical Africa, have declined over the past two decades as progress has been made in prevention of infections with impregnated bed nets and the introduction of new antimalarial drugs, particularly the artemesinins.

Conducting seminal intervention trials against malaria that have fed directly into national and international policy which has contributed to the prevention of millions of deaths; these include trials of impregnated bed nets, the prevention of malaria in pregnant women, interventions to improve community based treatment and interventions to increase access to safe effective drugs.

The plan, to be carried out by national malaria - control agencies in Cambodia and Thailand with support from various research institutes, includes rapid and widespread treatment with ACTs, improved mosquito control, the distribution of long - lasting insecticide - impregnated bed nets, a ban on monotherapies in Cambodia (they are already rare in Thailand), and an information campaign.

Some potential discouraging news in the worldwide battle against malaria: A report from Senegal shows that mosquitos can rapidly develop resistance to insecticide used to impregnate bed nets.

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But over the past decade, many tropical countries have drastically scaled up mosquito control by spraying indoors and providing bed nets impregnated with pyrethroids.