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. You can retreat your bednets and curtains at home using special packets that you buy in pharmacies and in shops, in your community by doing community dipping or by taking your bednets and curtains to a dipping station. Always sleep under insecticide-treated bednets.