Congo-B: start of a campaign to distribute mosquito nets against malaria
The mosquito net remains the most effective method to prevent malaria (photo illustration).
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In Congo-Brazzaville, malaria continues to kill more people than any other disease.
In an attempt to stem it, the Congolese government, with the financial support of the Global Fund, is launching this Saturday, December 17, a vast mass distribution campaign of more than one million impregnated mosquito nets in the city of Brazzaville.
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With our correspondent in Brazzaville,
Loïcia Martial
In front of a pharmacy in the center of Brazzaville, here is Sonia, a mother.
She came to buy medicine to treat her 8-year-old child who is sick with malaria.
She assured us that she is impatiently awaiting the distribution of mosquito nets because she is struggling, she says, to drive malaria out of her home: “
It is an endemic disease.
At home, the children can start with a cough or the flu, but in the end the exams always reveal that it is malaria
,” she explains.
Door to door
A total of 1.3 million insecticide-treated mosquito nets will be distributed throughout the capital, during a door-to-door operation.
According to Jean-Claude Moboussé, departmental director of health care and services in Brazzaville, mosquito nets remain the best way to protect themselves against this disease, which takes a heavy toll on families.
"
Burden
"
“
It's a burden because malaria is the leading cause of mortality, morbidity and hospitalization
,” he says.
But, which ones should engage in socio-economic development.
These are the people who are sick.
So it's a burden naturally because there is a drop in productivity
”.
The distribution of mosquito nets, which should last until December 27, will be digitized, according to the Ministry of Health in order to collect data in real time.
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