Treatment
Treatment and Prevention Strategies
While malaria remains one of the deadliest diseases on the African continent, it is preventable and treatable. In order to be successful in defeating this disease, we need to work together in eradicating it on a global scale. We have put into place a comprehensive plan, which includes giving families and individuals insecticide-treated bed nets to sleep under and taking steps to kill mosquitoes where they breed and infest through indoor spraying treatments.
Long-Lasting Insecticide-Treated Bed Nets
Bed nets work by creating a defensive shield against infected-malaria carrying mosquitoes. Individuals and families can sleep under an insecticide-treated bed net, safe from malaria, for four to five years. The insecticide woven into each bed net makes entire communities safer killing and repelling mosquitoes so that they can't go on to bite others who may not be protected by a net. A net treated with special insecticides offers about twice the protection of an untreated net, and through its repellency, can even protect other people in the room outside the net.End Malaria Now uses the contributions from private and public donors to established bed net distribution programs throughout Africa. Bed nets are a life-saving solution. Join us in the fight today. For as little as $10, you'll be saving a life. Donate a Net and Save a Life!
Spraying
The fight against malaria goes beyond nets. We have trained and facilitated specific teams to spray insecticide treatments on the inside walls of homes where mosquitoes breed and infest. This helps kill the female mosquito after she feeds on a person, reducing malaria transmission to others. In some special circumstances, teams are also organized to eliminate or treat mosquito breeding sites with another type of environmentally-friendly insecticide. However, because the African malaria mosquitoes are so prolific and have such a broad range of breeding habits, this type of "larval control" may only be applicable in some areas, as determined by local assessment.The fight against malaria needs to be comprehensive; therefore the use of long-lasting insecticide-treated mosquito nets, along with Indoor Spraying treatments is necessary to combat in the fight to eradicate this disease to save lives and build a better tomorrow for all of Africa. End Malaria Now is not a scientific organization. Our focus is on advocacy and awareness; we are not malariologists, we don't test vaccines, create new medicines or specialize in spraying. However, we do support an integrated approach to fighting malaria and that includes proven interventions like indoor spraying treatments and the usage of long-lasting insecticide treated mosquito nets. The indoor residual spray is entirely up to each country's National Malaria Control.
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, how to protect pregnant women and unborn children, or the importance of indoor spraying treatments, a large part of End Malaria Now's effort will be directed at educating families in Africa about malaria.One of the most important EMN messages is that mosquito bed 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 bed nets are far more cost effective than aerosols or burning mosquito coils.