Education

Education

Whether it is around how to properly and consistently use a bed net, how to recognize the illness in a child and take appropriate measures (like administering new artemisinin-based combination therapies), how to protect pregnant women and unborn children, or the importance of indoor residual spraying, a large part of Malaria No More's effort in the future will be directed at educating families in Africa about malaria. One of the most important early messages is that mosquito nets work. While there are other types of mosquitoes that bite during the day or early evening, the malaria mosquitoes bite late at night, and mosquito nets are far more cost effective than aerosols or burning mosquito coils. We envision creating kits and other tools to make the job of such on-the-ground education easier and more effective.