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Article: UNC study: Insecticide-treated bed nets reduce infant deaths in Democratic Republic of Congo.
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- Politics & Government Week
- Article date:
- October 1, 2009
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Giving insecticide-treated bed nets to nearly 18,000 mothers at prenatal clinics in the Democratic Republic of Congo prevented an estimated 414 infant deaths from malaria, a study by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill researchers concludes.
The bed nets cost about $6 each. When costs for transporting and distributing the nets and educating people how to use them are factored in, it cost just over $411 per infant death prevented. In addition, the intervention prevented an estimated 587 low birth weight deliveries, which in turn reduced long-term disability.
"This is an extremely cost-effective intervention," said Sylvia Becker-Dreps, M.D., ...