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| Malaria continues to kill thousands of people annually with the latest report indicating that last year Malawi registered 8,006 deaths.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n According to the report by National Malaria Control, Mwanza registered more deaths for every 10,000 population while Lilongwe and Mangochi registered more deaths in absolute numbers.<\/p>\n Mwanza registered 247 malarial deaths while Lilongwe and Mangochi had 689 and 744 respectively.<\/p>\n The report also shows that 6,748,535 new malaria cases were registered between January and December 2010.<\/p>\n Lilongwe had 889,537 cases, Zomba 307,402 and Mwanza 103,255.<\/p>\n Reacting to the statistics, Malawi Health Equity Network (MHEN) Executive Director Martha Kwataine said it is high time government conducted a survey to establish the effectiveness of anti-malaria measures currently in place such as the distribution on treated mosquito nets.<\/p>\n \u201cThe figure shows that about half of the population was attacked by malaria, this means that everybody is vulnerable to malaria,\u201d said Kwataine in an interview last Thursday.<\/p>\n Ministry of Health spokesperson Henry Chimbali said they have put in place strategies of malaria prevention to ensure that people in Malawi are effectively protected from it.<\/p>\n \u201cThe primary intervention is to diagnose and treat malaria cases using effective and recommended drugs. In Malawi, we are currently using Artemether-Lumefantrin (LA) as a drug to treat malaria,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n He said the main strategic areas for integrated malaria vector management are long lasting insecticide treated mosquito nets (LLINs).<\/p>\n Chimbali said the ministry is aiming at increasing LLINs coverage through universal access whereby a net will be provided for every two people in Malawi.<\/p>\n He explained that other preventive measures are indoor residual house spraying and larviciding.<\/p>\n Chimbali, however, bemoaned the tendency by some people who are reluctant to use nets and others who misuse them for other unintended practices.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" WRITTEN BY THERESA CHAPULAPULA Malaria continues to kill thousands of people annually with the latest report indicating that last year […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2534,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[367,724,644],"class_list":["post-2533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health-well-being","tag-hospital","tag-malaria","tag-medicine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2533\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}} |