This family is using insecticide-treated bednets to help prevent getting malaria. All of the family members, especially the small children, sleep under insecticide-treated bednets.
Malaria is a serious illness that starts with fever.
Everyone in the family can get malaria. It is especially dangerous to young children. Malaria is carried by mosquitoes. When a mosquito bites a person with malaria, and then bites a healthy person, it can pass the malaria to the healthy person. Using insecticide treated bednets and curtains Insecticide-treated bednets and curtains need to be retreated everyone 6 months so that they keep working.