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Papua desperately in need of mosquito nets to prevent malaria
Papua, Indonesia's most remote and underdeveloped province, has called on the public and the central government to provide it with 550,000 mosquito nets as it struggles with pervasive malaria
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apua, Indonesia's most remote and underdeveloped province, has called on the public and the central government to provide it with 550,000 mosquito nets as it struggles with pervasive malaria.
The head of the malaria and AIDS unit at the Papua health agency, Ni Yoman Sri Antara, said on Tuesday that nets would be allocated to nine regencies that had not yet received assistance.
"We've proposed 550,000 nets, but the central government can only provide around 300,000. But the pledge has yet to arrive," Yoman said.
The agency distributed 1 million nets to 16 regencies last year with the help of Global Fund.
Papua has the highest rate of malaria cases in the archipelago, with 43 out of 100 people on average being infected with malaria last year. The national average was 27 of every 100 people in 2014.
Jayapura municipality and the regencies of Yahukimo, Keerom and Mimika have the highest malaria rates, according to Yoman. (ren)(++++)
