MALARIA PREVENTION AND CONTROL PROJECT IN SIERRA LEONE
Sam-Mbomah, Edwin / M. Koroma, Briama Malaria remains the leading cause of morbidity and mortality, and therefore a major public health problem in Africa. Between 300 and 500 million episodes of malaria and 1.5 to 2.5 million deaths occur annually predominantly in children below 5 years and pregnant women. This can be attributed to a number of factors including inadequate preventive measures, the use of low efficacy drugs in treatment of malaria resulting to drug resistance, untid...