Cambodia starts record distribution of nets in bid to beat malaria

Nov 7, 2011
DPA

Phnom Penh - The Cambodian government began handing out the first of 2.7 million insecticide-treated nets Monday in a bid to eliminate malaria by 2025.

The distribution, Cambodia's largest ever, is being paid for by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.

A handout of nets in western provinces in 2009 saw a near immediate drop in malaria cases, according to Dr Steven Bjorge, who heads the malaria team at the Cambodia office of the World Health Organization, which is providing technical assistance.

Cambodia prepares biggest handout of mosquito nets to beat malaria

03.08.2011
Trend (Azerbaijan)

The government said Wednesday millions of at-risk Cambodians would be given mosquito nets in a significant effort to prevent malaria, DPA reported.

Dr Char Meng Chuor, the director of the National Center for Malaria Control, said authorities would start distributing 2.7 million nets treated with insecticide next month.

He expected the programme would take a month and cost 12 million dollars, paid for by the Global Fund.

"This is our biggest distribution (of mosquito nets) and covers all of the high-risk areas of 2.5 million people in 4,079 villages," Char said.

Cambodia to provide anti-mosquito nets to counter malaria

Sunday, April 19, 2009

PHNOM PENH (Xinhua): The Cambodian government will soon dispatch to the public 1,500 nets soaked with mosquito-killing liquid amid rising danger of malaria during the rainy season, national media said on Sunday.

The nets will be received by the local people in provinces of Battambang, Pailin, Kampot and Pursat, where malaria used to have higher infection rates than other provinces of the kingdom, Chinese-language newspaper the Jian Hua Daily quoted government officials as saying.

Such nets proved to be very effective in the past years to contain spread of the disease, which is mainly transmitted through biting of Tiger Mosquitoes, they said.

Two million out of the 14 million population of Cambodia face danger of malaria, and the government prepares to allocate one such net for each two persons in the rainy season, they said.

Therefore, one million nets soaked with mosquito-killing drugs will be needed this year, they added.

In 2008, some 50,000 Cambodians were infected with malaria and over 100 of them died, according to official figures.