Long lasting insecticide treated mosquito net LLINs

Date：2016/12/31 16:42:04   Read：次

Recently, scientists have found that with the global climate change, rising temperatures and reduced rainfall, Africa's malaria epidemic will be more serious, the task of preventing and treating malaria has become more arduous. Malaria is infected by mosquito bites and insect borne infectious disease caused by plasmodium. With the development of economy, people's living environment and health conditions improve, malaria has disappeared in many countries, mainly popular in Central Africa, South and Southeast Asia and other tropical regions of northern South Africa, of which the most serious outbreak of mosquito breeding, in addition to the objective conditions for the hot climate, many Africans living in poverty. Can not be timely and effective treatment and self protection consciousness etc. the reason can not be ignored after the illness.
The WHO's data show that the world has 350 million to 500 million cases of malaria each year, more than 90% of the deaths occurred in sub Saharan Africa, Africa each year die from malaria has a population of 1 million. Nigeria is the most populous country in Africa malaria epidemic in the hardest hit, 300 thousand people died of malaria each year, accounted for about 1/3 deaths in africa. At the same time, malaria also make originally not wealthy Nigerians back heavy economic burden, the data show that the treatment of malaria spend Nigerian average annual family income of 18%, 65% to the hospital who is suffering from malaria, and 30% patients are hospitalized for treatment of malaria.
How effective prevention and treatment of malaria has been the focus of the work of the health sector in many countries, many countries have taken the establishment of antimalarial center, to promote cheap drugs, promote the use of mosquito nets and other measures, Nigeria government plans in the popularity of 62 million nets next year. Insect nets are WHO tropical disease control department recommended products, the surface of WHO via the WHO recommended by the well-known deltamethrin or pyrethroid deltamethrin impregnated mosquito permethrin potion, after contact will escape, and can prevent mosquitoes and related diseases such as dengue fever and malaria. The World Malaria Report, released by the WHO in 2009, shows that in 2009 the funds used to fight malaria reached $1 billion 700 million. Some research institutions predict that if global climate change can not be checked, by 2030, there will be 170 million people in the continent will have the risk of malaria.
Insect nets, English named LONG LASTING INSECTICIDE TREATED MOSQUITO NETS LASTING IMPREGNATED NETS or LONG (LLINs or ITNs). Sleeping in the insect in mosquito net can make the total child mortality rate decreased by 20%. WHO (WHO) a new report in Zambia, Garner, Ethiopia and Rwanda to carry out on-the-spot observation at the end of 2007 published provides new evidence that insect nets and wider dissemination of new drugs can greatly reduce the number of deaths caused by malaria. Another report pointed out that if the rapid in 30 African countries worst affected by the impact of malaria to promote malaria prevention and control measures, will be able to save the lives of 3 million 500 thousand people, and every year can get 30 billion of the economic output.