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"I realise that people do not take malaria seriously. You can meet people who have malaria and who don't realise that they can die from it," Ndour told AFP.
The anti-malaria initiative was started by an US non-governmental organisation MalariaNoMore in partnership with the National Plan for Fighting Malaria, created in 1995 and run by the Senegalese health ministry.
The Senegalese government is set to distribute nearly 2.2 million insecticide-treated mosquito nets throughout the country over the next week. "It is the first campaign on a nationwide scale," said Pape Moussa Thior, the coordinator of the plan.
While not the primary cause of death in Senegal, 722 people died from malaria last year, including 141 in the Dakar region, the coordinator added.
The mosquito-borne disease claims the lives of nearly one million people a year worldwide, the majority in Africa, and most of the victims are children who die before their fifth birthday, according to the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF).
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The anti-malaria initiative was started by an US non-governmental organisation MalariaNoMore in partnership with the National Plan for Fighting Malaria, created in 1995 and run by the Senegalese health ministry.
The Senegalese government is set to distribute nearly 2.2 million insecticide-treated mosquito nets throughout the country over the next week. "It is the first campaign on a nationwide scale," said Pape Moussa Thior, the coordinator of the plan.
While not the primary cause of death in Senegal, 722 people died from malaria last year, including 141 in the Dakar region, the coordinator added.
The mosquito-borne disease claims the lives of nearly one million people a year worldwide, the majority in Africa, and most of the victims are children who die before their fifth birthday, according to the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF).
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