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More Children Sleep Under Malaria Nets, but Millions Still Do Not
Nov. 17, 2008
By Donald G. McNeil, Jr.
By last year, about 19 percent of African children who lived in areas where malaria was endemic were sleeping under insecticide-treated mosquito nets, according to a new study in The Lancet.
Whether or not that is success or failure depends on how you look at it.
In 2000, when the World Health Organization endorsed treated nets as a weapon against malaria, fewer than 2 percent of African children had them.
Copyright 2008 The New York Times Company
For full article, visit:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/18/health/research/18glob.html
category: News from Other Sources : General Health News
contributed by Winnie Mutch on 18 November 2008
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