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Medical Net Helps Kenya Reduce Malaria Deaths in Children
Health Minister Charity Ngilu said the distribution of 13.4 million nets over the past five years to children and pregnant women had helped curtail infections, a key success against a disease threatening 40 percent of the world's population.
"Childhood deaths have been reduced by 44 percent in high-risk districts, in-patient malaria cases and deaths are falling (and) there are reduced cases at the community level," she said in a statement.
"For every 1,000 treated nets used, seven children who might have died of malaria are saved."
Malaria kills 34,000 children under the age of five each year in Kenya, and threatens the lives of more than 25 million people out of a population of 34 million, the ministry said.
Children sleeping under insecticidal nets (ITNs) in high risk areas are 44 percent less likely to die, according to a survey carried out in four districts.
The government has distributed 12 million doses of artemisinin-based therapy (ACT), the latest anti-malaria drug cocktail to replace the mono-therapies that had developed resistance.
In addition, some 824,600 houses in 16 epidemic-prone districts underwent indoor spraying this year.
The government and donors spent 4.7 billion shillings (70 million dollars/52 million euros) on the campaign, yet the funds were not enough.
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