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Extract from IRIN:
(re-posted in Science in Africa - Africa's First On-Line Science Magazine)

MALI: Malaria cases decrease - 
free mosquito nets do the trick

Mothers in some parts of rural Mali are being given free mosquito nets impregnated with insecticide if they take their children for full series of vaccinations against preventable diseases such as measles and polio.

Health workers told IRIN that this programme had significantly reduced infant mortality and malnutrition in a region where child deaths amongst the highest in the world....Already, just two years into the programme, many mothers admit that their children are much healthier.

"During my first two pregnancies, when I did not sleep under a mosquito net, I frequently fell ill and my children always were having malaria," said Kontoa Masita Neiyta a mother of four who lives in Madiama, a village in the Niger river valley of southern Mali.

"For two years though we have used the mosquito net, and we haven't had malaria any more," she told IRIN....Mali is one of the world's poorest countries, where 141 out of every 1,000 children die before reaching their first birthday.

Malaria cut by two thirds

However, over the past two years, the UNICEF child health campaign in the Niger valley has cut the number of malaria cases by two thirds and sharply increased the number of children vaccinated against preventable diseases.

Extracted with permission from IRIN and Science in Africa.