EXTENT AND PATTERNS OF UTILIZATION OF INSECTICIDE TREATED BED NETS AMONG ANTE-NATAL AND NURSING MOTHERS IN UDENU LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF ENUGU STATE.

📄 Project Abstract

Malaria had accompanied human kind for as long as 5,000 years; the first written evidence of disease dating back to 2,700 B.C. in the Chinese medical classic Nei Chin (Claudia, Corneille, Manuela, Bocar and Olaf, 2006). They noted that, protection techniques against insects, have also been known for ages and were used long before the malaria transmission processes was discovered. They also emphasized that, among the oldest approaches to prevent mosquito biting, was the use of bed nets and curtains, which in the ancient Roman and Greek world simply meant the spreading of gauze and muslin curtains over places to protect insects. Besides, the ancient Persians were said to destroy insects by using a powder dried flower of a Dalmatain pyrethrum. Claudia, Corneille, Manuela, Bocar and Olaf (2006) asserted that in recent years, these two techniques have been combined into the powerful tool of insecticide impregnated bed nets or insecticide treated net (ITNs) and curtains. According to their r...