BEAT MALARIA WITH READ AND CHECK By: Beny P, Tiffany K, Elsha S University of Airlangga
Climate change affects not only the weather duration, but also animal’ s life cycle. Indonesia, being the home of thousands of animal species, is also home to the mosquito Anopheles Sp. which is also known as the malaria’ s vector. As climate change my means longer duration on rainy season or sunny season, it also means that more the number of Anopheles mosquito can be doubled or triple. Malaria threatens the life of Indonesia’ s population. The mortality rate of malaria is one out of ten infected people, and the rate is even higher in East Indonesia. This is why we proposed the READ AND Check act so that we can beat the malaria with READ AND CHECK, which stands for Recognize the vector, AvoiD the bite, understAND the symptoms and CHECK to the doctor. Our main aim is for this four little steps may help to reduce the mortality rate of malaria in Indonesia and erase Indonesian’ s mindset that preventing malaria is hard. To better and healthier Indonesia, beat malaria with READ AND CHECK!
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