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: $16,835
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $52,965
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
Country
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 April 6, 2009.
Date Added to GlobalGiving
This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on November 13, 2007
Latest Update from the Field
Malaria project update from the field; Mullo village
By Chukwumuanya Igboekwu, MD, MPH - Health Program Associate, April 06, 2009 12:26 PM
On arrival, the malaria team paid a courtesy visit to the village chief to inform him of our arrival. He had earlier been briefed about the details of malaria team’s visit and what the malaria project is all about, so he had opportunity to mobilize the whole village to take full advantage of our visit. On the eve of the malaria outreach, the village town crier went round to remind villagers of our visit. So the entire people of the village including women and children were already assembled at the village square in anticipation of malaria team’s arrival.
The day’s activities commenced with health education on environmental hygiene and sanitation. Topics covered include the role of mosquito in malaria transmission, common mosquito breeding sites at homes, early signs and symptoms of malaria, and ways of preventing malaria.
This was followed by a community demonstration session on the use of Insecticide treated nets (ITNs). In excitement the chief of the village volunteered to sleep under the net during the demonstration session. Thereafter, ITNs were distributed to pregnant women and nursing mothers. A total of 100 ITNs were distributed. The women who were lucky to get an ITN beamed with smiles, and were full of appreciation to PSJ donors who made contributions through the GlobalGiving Foundation. Most families are poor and could not have afforded the ITNs by themselves.
Because of the limited number of nets available, we had to restrict the age limit of beneficiaries to mothers with infants (children less than one year of age) only. This still leaves hundreds of other children vulnerable to malaria attack especially during the peak malaria transmission season starting from late May.
The third activity of the day was antimalaria treatment of all children and pregnant mothers who presented with clinical features of malaria. The clinical team was led by a community physician. Targeted malaria chemoprophylaxis was also administered to pregnant women and children under-five. 125 children received malaria treatment, while 37 pregnant women received targeted malaria chemoprophylaxis. The malaria treatment is targeted at children under-five and pregnant women because they are the most vulnerable group to malaria morbidity and mortality.
At the end of activities, the malaria team held a dialogue with the village elders on the common health problems facing the community, and how Physicians for Social Justice (PSJ) can assist the community achieve their highest attainable level of health. The village elders thanked the team for the free services rendered to them. They also expressed their gratitude to all those who donated money for purchase of ITNs given to their women.
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