Preventing Childhood Malaria Deaths in Mashegu
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Summary
This project provides families with malaria prevention education, life-saving medicines and insecticide treated bednets to protect 20,000 children from malaria related deaths in rural Mashegu.
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Project Needs and Beneficiaries
In this region, malaria accounts for 30% of deaths for children under 5 (UNICEF/FGN 2004). PSJ estimates that about 70% of outpatient visits for children under 5 and 50% of hospital admissions are due to malaria in areas where we work. This project seeks to significantly reduce the high death rate resulting from malaria among children in rural Mashegu through community-wide malaria prevention education and distribution of ITNs to families with children under 5.
Activities
If we educate families on how to ensure a malaria vector (mosquito)-free environment, as well as provide families with insecticide treated bednets, we will be able to reduce the number of malaria illnesses and deaths in children by at least 50%.
Funding Information
Total Funding Received to Date: $18,453
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $51,346
Total Funding Goal: $69,800
Additional Documentation
This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).
Why this Project is Important
Potential Long Term Impact
The project will save the lives of about 40,000 thousand children and boost their development. Malaria accounts for 40% of healthcare costs for families in this region, this project will result in more disposable income available to families.
Project Message
For another child, $1 may be worth just a candy, but for a 4-year-old girl dying of malaria in rural Mashegu, $1 is worth her life.
- Ibrahim Idris, MD, MPH, President of Physicians for Social Justice
Who is Running This Project
Contact
Chukwumuanya Igboekwu
Health Program Associate
Room 1 & 2 Hospital Extension Building
Rural Hospital Sahon-Rami, Mashegu
P. O. Box 18 Kontagora, Niger State Kontagora
Nigeria
+234-803-7017383
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Project Sponsor
Organization
Physicians for Social Justice (PSJ)
Room 1 & 2 Hospital Extension Building Rural Hospital Sahon-Rami
P. O. Box 18 Kontagora,
Niger State
P.O Box 18
Nigeria
+234- 803-7017383
Where this Project is Located
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This project is located in
Nigeria
and can also be found under
Children.
For more information about Nigeria, read the Human Development Report on Nigeria or the Wikipedia entry for Nigeria.
When this Project was Updated
Last Updated
This project was last updated on November 6, 2009.
Date Added to GlobalGiving
This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on November 13, 2007
Latest Update from the Field
Updates from Adogon, Nassara and Sahon-rami villages
By Chukwumuanya Igboekwu - Dr., August 24, 2009 02:05 PM
Within this reporting period, the project team conducted outreaches in three villages, namely Adogon, Nassarawa and Sahon-rami. The project reached 2350 vulnerable households with targeted malaria prevention education, prophylaxis and insecticide treated nets. The house to house visits provided a unique opportunity for the malaria team to educate families about malaria prevention through environmental sanitation. In particular, elimination of mosquito breeding sites was emphasized, as this is the period of peak rainy season when malaria transmission is highest. Families were also educated about early symptoms and signs of malaria and on the need for sick children to receive prompt medical attention. Insecticide treated nets were distributed to pregnant women among the families visited.
The project team also conducted three school-based malaria education sessions for children in the three community primary schools in these villages. During the school outreaches, sick children also received medical attention from the malaria team physician. Of note was the case of six year old Hadiza who was treated by the malaria team during the visit by the malaria team to her school at Adogon. She had developed fever about 2 days prior to the malaria team visit. But due to lack of financial resources, her parents could not afford to take her to the health facility, so her condition had continued to deteriorate.
Luckily for Hadiza, the mobile team visited her school two days after the onset of her illness. She was diagnosed of acute malaria by the mobile team doctor; and received antimalaria treatment free of charge. One week later, we received a short note from Hadiza expressing her gratitude to the malaria team for curing her. Here is what she wrote: “Good morning sir, I want to thank you for treating me when you visited our school last week. Before you gave me medicines, I feel feverish and too weak to play with my friends. I could not do draw my favourite pictures. But now I am well again. I can play with my friends again. Thank you doctor and nurse for treating me. My mother is very happy that I am well again”.
In rural mashegu, thousands of young children who suffer acute attacks of malaria frequently develop complications such as anemia and convulsions, because they do not receive prompt treatment, and such complications are usually the cause of their death.
Although the house to house campaign strategy that we have recently adopted was very tedious and time consuming, it proved very rewarding as it provided the malaria team the opportunity to see firsthand the environmental conditions under which families live, and to offer tailor made advice on how they (families) can improve environmental hygiene and eliminate mosquito breeding sites around their homes.
We are very grateful to all our benefactors who donated to this project; most of whom have donated to this project over and over again. We thank you for your unrelenting generosity. We thank you for the lifeline you have given to thousands of children in rural Mashegu though your donations. With your donations, many children like Hadiza will have the opportunity to receive life-saving treatment.
Thank you and May God bless you.
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