Impregnated Mosquito Bed Netting

Paper Summary:

This paper discusses how malaria in Western Kenya, an increasingly serious disease, is responsible for more deaths in the area than HIV/AIDS. The paper reports that the advent and introduction of impregnated mosquito bed netting has raised hopes of a new method of combating malaria. According to the paper, numerous studies attest to the fact that impregnated nets significantly reduce the transmission and infection of malaria in the region; especially among very young children.

Outline:
Abstract
Introduction
Brief Overview
Literature Review
Recommendations and Conclusion

From the Paper:

"The literature also provides a wide range of studies that show that previous conventional methods of fighting malaria have proven in general to be ineffective. This aspect is concisely outlined in an article entitled, When Disease Resists; Malaria's Toll Rises in Tropical Regions As Effectiveness of Chloroquine Falls Off by David Brown ( 1994. ) This article refers to an aspect that has already been touched on; namely that the malaria parasite has become resistant to many previously effective agents. "...the microorganism that causes malaria had become resistant to chloroquine, the standard medicine used to prevent and treat the disease for the previous 40 years." ( Brown,1994) The study also refers particularly to the Kenyan situation."... researchers in Kenya - where chloroquine has been useless for a decade - reported that more than 25 percent of malaria cases in a recent study were resistant to the two more modern and expensive antimalarial drugs, mefloquine and doxycycline." ( Brown,1994) This again raises the central concern that modern drugs are proving to be less and less effective in the fight against malaria."

Sample of Sources Used:

• ALAII J. et al. ( 2003) COMMUNITY REACTIONS TO THE INTRODUCTION OF PERMETHRIN-TREATED BED NETS FOR MALARIA CONTROL DURING A RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL IN WESTERN KENYA. Retrieved November 3, 2006, from http://www.ajtmh.org/cgi/reprint/68/4_suppl/128.pdf
• Banfield, J. (1998, September). Malaria: Africa's Public Enemy No. 1. African Business 35+. Retrieved November 4, 2006, from Questia database: http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=5002294055
• Brown D. ( 1994) When Disease Resists; Malaria's Toll Rises in Tropical Regions As Effectiveness of Chloroquine Falls Off . The Washington Post. February 14, 1994
• Brown D. ( 1996) Antimalarial 'Bednets' Greatly Reduce Child Mortality in Africa, Studies Show. The Washington Post April 4, 1996.
• De Giorgio, E. M. (2000, July). The Heavy Cost of Malaria and AIDS. African Business 23. Retrieved November 4, 2006, from Questia database: http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=5002358265

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