What is Save the Children doing to help those children and mothers?
For young people? Save the Children is first providing treatment for pregnant women when they come for prenatal care services. This treatment of two or three doses of sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine (SP) protects women from malaria and Anemia, and also reduces low birth weight in infants, which leads to many newborn deaths. Save the Children also provides bed nets treated with insecticide to pregnant women and children. They have proven highly effective in killing mosquitoes and preventing malaria transmission. Save the Children is helping to introduce more effective drug therapies for treating malaria, because the older drugs are no longer effective — the bugs have developed resistance. We train health workers and community caregivers in the use of these new drugs, and help to set up management and logistics systems for their distribution. Save the Children is also providing malaria treatment kits to schools in several countries where malaria is a major problem. Teachers are trained to diag
