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  • Title: The Threat to Roll Back Malaria Project
  • Text: New Oxford Secondary English Course for SS1 pages 104 – 105
  • Questions and Answers

Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions on it.

The Threat to Roll Back Malaria Project:

          The Roll Back Malaria Project is a global action against Malaria. Nigeria and indeed all the member-states of the United Nations have agreed to bring down Malaria by the year 2015. It is part of the Millennium Development Goals to which all the member nations are committed. The chemicals known as “pyrethroids” have been approved for use on bed nets. Pyrethroids are chemicals that kill insects, including mosquitoes. Mosquito control experts mix pyrethroids with water and oil and apply it as a spray on bed nets. They kill flying adult mosquitoes. When they are used properly, pyrethroids have been found to pose very little risk to human health and the environment. However, the efficiency of these nets is being threatened as there is a growing resistance of the malaria vector mosquitoes to pyrethroid. Experts believe that in areas and countries like Nigeria, there is a lot of spraying of insecticides and it is therefore likely that the mosquitoes are developing a resistance against these chemicals.

          When that happens, it means that some of the mosquitoes can actually sit on the nets without dying. This does not mean that the nets have become useless. It just means that in some areas, the effect will start dropping.

          The big problem and the threat to malaria prevention is that there are no other groups of insecticides that can easily be used on nets because pyrethroids have the positive side that they are not dangerous. Even if a child sucks the net, it can sometimes give a little bit of skin irritation, but it is safe.

Questions and Answers:

1. What have the member-states of the United Nations agreed to do concerning malaria?

 

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