Mosquito nets cut birth problems

Pregnant women in Africa can reduce their risk of miscarriage or still birth by up to a third by sleeping under insecticide-treated bed nets.
This study drew on the results of four earlier trials in Kenya and Ghana involving more than 6,000 women.

Malaria is a preventable disease that kills more than 1m people a year, 90% of them in Africa – mostly children. A treated net costs about $4 – simply too much for many African families.

Read (BBC)

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