Africans push to tame malaria / Itai Madamombe.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Madamombe, Itai, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economic and Social Development.

Local Subjects:

Economic and Social Development.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 pages)

Contained In:

Africa Renewal Vol. 18, no. 4, p. 4-4 18:4<4 2517-9829

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : United Nations, 2005.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

The Ugandan government announced in October that it would distribute 4.5 mn free insecticide-treated bed nets to protect children and pregnant women from malaria, thereby boosting the East African country's efforts to conquer the mosquito-borne disease. According to Mr. John Bosco Rwakimari, head of the Ugandan Health Ministry's malariacontrol programme, the treated net has several benefits: it works as a barrier between the body and the mosquito, it repels mosquitoes and it kills those that land on it.

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