Malaria Prevention

Community approach towards malaria reduction.

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The fibre and future of each nation depend on the families who live in households and communities. Malaria affects the fibre of the nation with serious implications for households and communities. As family members become sick, resources become increasingly constrained, incomes decline, medical costs rise, and poverty is experienced again.

Households affected by malaria suffer the loss of productive labour and income, savings are diverted and assets are depleted to meet the health care and funeral costs. Malaria affects

  Geographic areas: Western region (STMA)

all facets of communities, there is, therefore, an urgent need to address effective malaria preventive strategies communities can use to mitigate a wide range of health and social-economic impacts of malaria.

Life Relief Foundation is currently working with PLHIV support groups since PLHIVs are vulnerable to malaria due to deficient resistance. They will therefore participate in the program to reduce the incidence of malaria among the PLHIV community.

The critical issues that Life Relief Foundation will address are:

  • BCC populace targeting in the ten (10) communities; pregnant mothers of children under five, PLHIV and ten basic school children, to educate them with accurate and correct information about the disease to address the threatening misconceptions and help reduce the incidence.
  • Advocacy for greater community involvement and participation in malaria

  • prevention and home-based management of malaria, increased membership of pregnant mothers identified and referred for ANC with a complete dose of SP as an intermittent preventive treatment, mother support groups including pregnant mothers, mothers of children under five (5) years and detect PLHIV with early signs and symptoms, and offer home-based care. understands referral for proper management, increased number of pregnant mothers under five sleeping under ITN.

    • PROJECT GOAL

    The overall goal of this project is to help reduce malaria incidence among vulnerable groups (pregnant women, children under five (5) and PLWAs)

    OBJECTIVE

    • Educate six thousand five hundred (6500) community members especially pregnant women, mothers of children under five (5) years and PLWHAs on home-based malaria prevention. Advocate for the use of ITNs and the importance of IPT by 2010.
    • Attain 60% usage of insecticide-treated mosquito nets amongst pregnant women, PLWHAs and children under five (5) years by 2010.

  • Attain 60% completion of at least two doses of intermittent preventive treatment amongst pregnant women in the target communities.

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