Soap Faso, Innovation to Combat Malaria
Around the world commemorate the day malaria. This commemoration is held by the WHO to raise public awareness around the world and encourage countries in the world to jointly make efforts to control the development of malaria and rid the world of malaria.
Malaria is an infectious disease caused by the parasite Plasmodium sp. Which is carried by mosquitoes Anopheles sp. Females. These parasites invade red blood cells and cause a variety of symptoms, such as fever, chills, anemia and an enlarged spleen.
According to WHO data, in 2015, there are still 3.2 million people (almost half the world's population) are at risk of suffering from malaria and 438,000 people die from malaria. Although malaria incidence continued to decline, with a decrease in cases as much as 60% since 2000, the control of malaria must continue to be maintained and even enhanced with a variety of innovative efforts.
Until now, this has been done many programs to combat malaria and deaths caused by it. Among the various programs, program Indoor Residual Spraying (IRS) which is done by spraying insecticides in houses and distributing mosquito nets is still the most effective programs. However, programs supported by the WHO still has some drawbacks. In some places, the IRS still needs to be difficult to obtain. IRS also create new problems for the health of ISPA. Mosquito nets are also only effectively protect at night while sleeping, when mosquitoes are in a very active condition when the late afternoon and people are still being outdoors. In other words, this program has not been able to clear up malaria from the root.
Gerard Niyondiko, an engineer from Burundi, expressed a need for new innovations in an effort to stop the spread of malaria. The idea was he wanted to give protection to the people in a longer time. Soaps, according to him, is an object that is owned by 95% of families in Africa (where malaria becomes an endemic). From there he began the process of soap Faso invention that is claimed to provide protection from malaria for up to 6 hours after use. This discovery project even won the Global Social Ventures Competition of the University of Berkeley. With the soap Faso as one method of malaria prevention, the community is expected to be protected since the early evening when mosquitoes are very active and they still are outdoors and exposed to direct risk. Gerard and his team look forward to working with manufacturers and distributors of large-scale soap so that these products can compete with conventional soap.
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At the beginning of this appearance, soap Faso is expected to be used by 183 million people at high risk who live in the countries of sub-Saharan Africa such as Nigeria, the Congo, Tanzania, Ghana, Ethiopia, and Uganda. Therefore soap Faso promote the campaign "Save 100,000 lives" to get a fund of 100,000 Euro and protect 100,000 people from malaria until 2018. Soap Faso is an example of a simple and easy to obtain, it is expected the presence can reduce the incidence of malaria than ever before.
Hmmm, we wait for news about the success of soap Faso ... Hopefully Indonesia can also provide innovation that can match the greatness of soap Faso.
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