Sentences with phrase «treated bed nets»

Due to increased funding, more children are sleeping under insecticide - treated bed nets in sub-Saharan Africa.

Pyrethroid - treated bed nets are acutely neurotoxic to mosquitoes, inducing symptoms such as loss of coordination, paralysis, and violent spasms.

Her dissertation, «Nothing but Nets: The History of Insecticide - Treated Nets in Africa, 1980s - Present,» examines how and why insecticide - treated bed nets became a cornerstone of malaria control in the 21st century, as well as the role of African scientists, health workers, health officials, and populations played in the construction of this biomedical, global health technology.

There are no licensed vaccines for placental malaria and current strategies to prevent the disease rely on vector eradication (e.g. using chemically - treated bed nets, indoor residual spraying) combined with the intermittent administration of antimalarial drugs.

Lengeler C. Insecticide - treated bed nets and curtains for preventing malaria.

Interbreeding of two malaria mosquito species in the West African country of Mali has resulted in a «super mosquito» hybrid that's resistant to insecticide - treated bed nets.

The widespread use of insecticide - treated bed nets eventually led to a rise in resistance to pyretheroids by the Anopheles mosquito.

In 20 villages, houses are being equipped with eave tubes, while villagers receive insecticide - treated bed nets; 20 other villages get only bed nets.

For ethical reasons, we ensured that all participants were not denied existing malaria prevention (insecticide - treated bed nets) or malaria treatment.

Insecticide - treated bed nets were provided at enrollment, as well as malaria treatment when indicated.

«We can now make a blanket recommendation: Everywhere there is malaria, you should use treated bed nets,» says Christian Lengeler of the Swiss Tropical Institute in Basel.

«We know that giving insecticide - treated bed nets to a household will protect young children, reducing their susceptibility by 50 percent and their overall chances of dying by 16 to 17 percent.

The thousand study participants also received supporting interventions including insecticide - treated bed nets to avoid malaria infection and a safe water system.

«Having an accurate overview of how different regions of countries are connected by human movement aids effective disease control planning and helps target resources, such as treated bed nets or community health workers, in the right places.

Public health measures in Africa such as insecticide - treated bed nets and insecticide - spraying have helped reduce the numbers of malaria cases since 2000, but many mosquitoes have evolved resistance to insecticides.

But 25 percent of the malaria infections among children could be eradicated by distributing new insecticide - treated bed nets that would cost $ 7 apiece.

But when the massive rollout of insecticide - treated bed nets began in Africa in the early 2000s — more than a billion have been distributed — little thought was given to resistance, says Maureen Coetzee, director of the Wits Research Institute for Malaria at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa.

In a Nature paper last year, a group led by Simon Hay at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom estimated that between 2000 and 2015, some 633 million malaria deaths were averted, with 68 % of that decline due to insecticide - treated bed nets and 10 % to IRS.

Mrs. Alarbi said studies showed that for babies born to HIV - infected mothers, the use of niverapine drug combined with baby formulas to prevent mother - to - child transmission, could reduce child mortality to only two per cent of under - five mortality and morbidity while the use of insecticide - treated bed nets could reduce it by six per cent.

The Global Fund, underway in more than 140 countries, has delivered 104 million insecticide treated bed nets and 108 million highly effective doses of malaria medicines, and has also protected millions of homes through indoor spraying.

Insecticide - treated bed nets resulted in the largest reduction, accounting for 68 % of the cases prevented, according to the Nature study.

An analysis published Sep. 16 in the journal Nature noted that insecticide - treated bed nets, insecticides sprayed on indoor surfaces, and prompt treatment with combination drug therapy collectively helped reduce the spread of malaria throughout a large swath of sub-Saharan Africa.

As a result, an estimated 42 % of African households owned at least one insecticide - treated bed net by mid-2010; about 35 % of children were estimated to sleep under one.

Not exact matches

That encouraging stat also means that many, many children still don't sleep under a bed net or in a house treated with insecticide, according to the WHO.

So if, for example, public health officials are in a community handing out bed nets, it could make sense to also treat for schistosomiasis because of the down - the - road benefit of reducing the risk of malaria.»

One group received enough bed nets to cover every sleeping space, and the nets were treated with the insecticide permethrin over the next 2 years.

More than a decade ago, bed nets treated with pyretheroids — a class of pesticides that includes deltamethrin — were rolled out in Africa in a big way to fight malaria.

Work undertaken during this period included demonstration of the efficacy of insecticide treated bed - nets in preventing death from malaria in African children and demonstration of the impact of Haemophilus influenzae type b and pneumococcal conjugate vaccines when deployed in sub-Saharan Africa.