Binaba(UE), May 4, GNA - The Anglican Diocesan Development and Relief Organization (ADRO) has expanded its malaria prevention and control project to include Bawku West and Garu -Tempane Districts of the Upper East Region.

ADRO in collaboration with the Ghana Health Service (GHS) has since 2006 been implementing a malaria project, aimed at reaching people in hard to reach communities in the Upper East, Upper West, Northern, Ashanti, Western and Eastern Regions.

Reverend Dr Jacob Ayeebo, Executive Director of ADRO, who disclosed this during the year's world malaria day in Binaba, which was used to launch ADRO Malaria Prevention and Control Project dubbed "President's Malaria Project Initiatives (PMI)".

The Executive Director explained that with funding from the United States Agency for International Development under the PMI, ADRO decided to expand the project to reach the two districts.

He indicated that the project would cover a total population of about 139,837 people including 24,967 children under five, 6,991 pregnant women, in 208 hard to reach communities in the two districts. He stated that the PMI, which has a three year project goal among other things, was to increase Long Lasting Insecticides Treated Net (LLIN) usage by pregnant women and under five children, by facilitating the distribution of approximately 64,000 nets in the target areas. It would also ensure that pregnant women have knowledge about and seek Intermittent Preventive Therapy (IPT). He explained that one of the strategy, the project would be adopting in attempt to increase LLIN usage, is the distribution of LLINs to pregnant women and children under five years using hang up strategy, where community volunteers would be equipped with nails, ropes and hammers to assist beneficiaries hang up mosquito nets. 4 May 10