GMin Eradicate Malaria will undertake the malaria eradication project in July-August 2009.
The aim of the project is to eradicate Malaria completely in the chiefdom of Sahn Malen, and thus ensure the development of the chiefdom. This will be done by donating Long Lasting Insecticide Treated Malaria Nets to all the inhabitants of the village, and ensure that every single person sleeps under a net every single night.
Fighting malaria through preventative methods, mainly sleeping under mosquito nets was already proven a very successful method with the building of the Panama Canal in 1914. At the first attempt to build the canal in 1880, which today is one of the most important trade routes in the world, more than 20.000 workers died and the project had to be stopped. Most of these died of Malaria. At the second attempt the project managers had learned from the mistake and took an active part in cutting grass and filling up swamps where mosquitoes lived. This method as well as making sure that every workers always slept under a mosquito net had a major positive effect on the health of the workers and the canal was completed and stands as it is today. Even though this took place almost a hundred years ago, malaria is still a widespread disease in the same category as HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis.
Children and young adults will be educated in the dangers and the status of malaria around the world and in their community, encourage creative intervention strategies and promote its implementation in the village. Adults will be educated at a different time and this time will also be used as a medium to promote peace within the society.
GMin will in co-operation with the Sahn Malen inhabitants engage in widespread alternative prevention techniques for every bed net received; that is, all inhabitants will dispose of all stagnant water around homes, brush around home, clean environment, participate in education campaigns that GMin organizes, and engage in voluntary endeavors to reduce the burden of malaria in community.
GMin will also well ensure that the WHO approved ACT, (Artenisin Combined Therapy) is provided to the health center, and that that all doses of the outdated inefficient Choloroquin medicine is retrieved from the health center and from the houses.
Furthermore the promotion of responsible use of the new anti-malaria therapy by ensuring the use of complete dosages even after symptoms are not visible is an important aspect which will be dealt with during while teaching about the malaria disease.
In order to measure the impact of our project surveys will be done before, during and after. This is done to prove the big impact mosquito nets have on fighting malaria as well, as ensuring that people keep using their nets.
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