UNC study: Insecticide-treated bed nets reduce infant deaths in Democratic Republic of Congo

Wednesday, September 2, 2009 - 23:28 in Health & Medicine

Giving insecticide-treated bed nets to nearly 18,000 mothers at prenatal clinics in the Democratic Republic of Congo prevented an estimated 414 infant deaths from malaria, a study by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill researchers concludes.

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