Building Malaria Prevention
PROJECT LOCATION
Yaoundé, Cameroon
Status
Complete
When
2012 – 2013
Health Concern
Malaria
Project Hypothesis
Housing improvements can effectively mitigate the incidence of malaria and consequently reduce the malaria mortality rate in Yaounde, Cameroon.
Project Strategy
Sealing home’s openings and screening windows, doors and eaves, and implementing community training.
Project Outcomes
- Capacity building among local tradespeople
Number of Structures Improved
- 264 households
Beneficiaries
- 5,202 (Direct)
- 100,809 (Indirect)
- 5,202 (Community Members Trained)
Research Outcomes
- Households were enclosed in a way that avoided mosquitoes entering the home but allowed for ventilation for the comfort of the inhabitants. Advocacy and education efforts afforded improvements among the entire community rather than only among the beneficiaries by enclosing wastewater pipes and clearing debris.
- Reduced exposure to malaria-carrying mosquitos by 50% in intervention homes.
- 20% reduction in malaria incidence.
Project Partners
- Implementing Partner — Cameroon Coalition Against Malaria (CCAM)
- Implementing Partner — Cameroon Media Against Malaria (CAMAM)
- Research Partner — University of Yaoundé
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A home receiving renovations and screening.
Our local implementing partner showing an intervention to the community.
Primary school students participating in a malaria awareness event in Cameroon.
Primary school students being tested for malaria.
A beneficiary child outside his home which received screening interventions.
The Ngock Zanga family, a beneficiary family who received screening interventions.
Local implementing partner explaining the screening technique.
A proud beneficiary and her newly screened window.
A proud beneficiary and her newly screened window.
Beneficiary children outside their newly screened home.