Bednets Can Save Lives

This Lesson:

• Complements the Education Saves Lives lesson on Avoiding Malaria.
• The lesson teaches about toilet hygiene, food preparation, child and baby hygiene, obtaining safe drinking water, and how to keep houses clean.
• Raises awareness of malaria and its symptoms and also how to prevent against it.
• Teaches how malaria is spread by mosquitoes and how to protect themselves by using a bed net.
• Teaches the importance of using a bed net every night and ensuring it covers the whole bed, as well as the importance of looking after a bed net by treating it with insecticide and repairing it if it becomes damaged.
• This lesson is part of a series of lessons on Health.