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SGTM 16 B: Malaria 

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How malaria affects the world

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Preventing malaria

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SGTM 16 B: Malaria 

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SGTM 16 B: Malaria 

2 million cases

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1 million deaths"

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Every year:

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1% or more of&eace'ee&ers have malariaat one time

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1 &eace'ee&er dies onaverage every monthfrom malaria

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SGTM 16 B: Malaria 

Incidence of malaria among peacekeepers in the

United Nations mission in Liberia

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SGTM 16 B: Malaria 

Malaria parasites

bursting out of red blood cells

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SGTM 16 B: Malaria 

Malaria affects the:

(ed )lood cells

*iver 

S&leen +idney

Brain

Heart and lungs

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SGTM 16 B: Malaria 

,ever 

Headache and -oint &ains

.hills and shivering

Sweating /nusual tiredness

   Always seek medical attention! 

Symptoms:

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SGTM 16 B: Malaria 

Bite of femaleano&heline

carrying &arasite

0n-ection with needle

carrying infected )lood

Malaria spreads by:

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raining stagnant water 

liminating )reeding sites

+ee&ing vegetation short

,ogging grounds with

insecticides

Controlling the mosuito population:

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SGTM 16 B: Malaria 

Screening windows

/sing treated )ed nets" uniforms

/sing insect re&ellents

3earing a&&ro&riate clothes

!educing your e"posure:

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4ntimalarials &revent you fromdevelo&ing clinical malaria

5o vaccine availa)le for

&reventing malaria

Malaria is worse than side effects

of antimalarials

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4ll &eace'ee&ers are re7uiredto ta'e anti8malaria &ills regularly

0f you can9t tolerate antimalarials"you may )e considered medically

unfit for duty

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SGTM 16 B: Malaria 

Partial immunity

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attac's of malaria

Pro&hylais is safer:

ta'e antimalarial &ills

on time

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