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ATLANTA -. Insecticide-treated nets can save the lives of many children, even in areas where there is intense transmission of malaria this year, according to a new study. The researchers say that the results presented here last month at the annual meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, should give new impetus to a global campaign to bring malaria under control.
The 2-year study, conducted by the Kenya Medical Research Institute in Nairobi and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, provides the missing piece in a series of tests . Previous studies - held in Ghana, Gambia, Burkina Faso and coastal Kenya - have shown that nets could save the lives of children, the main victims of malaria. But none of them took place in areas where a person receives hundreds of mosquito bites infected each year. "We were quite skeptical us" that bed nets would it help, said Bernard Nahlen CDC, one of the investigators.
In the trial, researchers randomly assigned each of the 221 villages in western Kenya and their combined 125,000 people into two groups. One group received enough nets to cover all sleeping areas, and the nets were treated with the insecticide permethrin over the next two years. the second group did not receive nets, although they were the data at the end of the trial
the use of nets reduced deaths among children under 1 year. - When most rate of malaria deaths occur --By about 22%. the nets also reduced cases of placental malaria in pregnant women 23%, and 28% less had babies of low birth weight. bed nets even protected those who do not use them, as they were in the vicinity of people who did. Researchers believe that it stems from a reduction in the number of infected mosquitoes
. "We can now make a general recommendation: Everywhere there is malaria, you should use treated nets," says Christian Lengeler the Swiss Tropical Institute in Basel bed nets are already a pillar of Roll Back Malaria, a designed program. to halve the number of malaria deaths by 2010, conducted by the World health Organisation. the study shows that a remarkable low-tech and relatively cheap intervention can help bring this goal closer, said Lengeler.
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