Burkina to hand out 6.6m mosquito nets in 2010Burkina Faso Burkina Faso (burkē`nə fä`sō), republic (2005 est. pop. 13,925,000), 105,869 sq mi (274,200 sq km), W Africa. It borders on Mali in the west and north, on Niger in the northeast, on Benin in the southeast, and on Togo, Ghana, and health authorities plan next year to hand out 6.6 million mosquito mosquito (məskē`tō), small, long-legged insect of the order Diptera, the true flies. The females of most species have piercing and sucking mouth parts and apparently they must feed at least once upon mammalian blood before their eggs can nets in a bid to tackle malaria, the main cause of death in the poor west African West Africa A region of western Africa between the Sahara Desert and the Gulf of Guinea. It was largely controlled by colonial powers until the 20th century. West African adj. & n. country, officials said Monday. Between 46 and 56 percent of annual cases of hospitalisation in Burkina Faso concern malaria patients, but the disease still kills 15,000 people per year, mainly children under five, the health ministry stated. "The government, with the aid of its partners, plans in 2010 to undertake a national campaign freely to distribute insecticide-treated nets that will cater for the whole population," said Victor Nana, who heads the preventive wing of the National Programme to Fight Paludism (PNLP PNLP Parque Nacional Lago Puelo ). "This will lead us to purchase, for a cost of more than 18 billion CFA francs The CFA franc (in French: franc CFA, "céfa", or just franc colloquially) is a currency used in 12 formerly French-ruled African countries, as well as in Guinea-Bissau (a former Portuguese colony) and in Equatorial Guinea (a former Spanish colony). (27.4 million euros / 40.5 million dollars), 6.6 million insecticide-treated mosquito nets to undertake this campaign," Dr Nana added. The campaign theme will be "two people, one net" in the country of more than 14 million inhabitants
The game is based loosely on the concepts from SameGame. . Paludism -- or malaria -- is transmitted by the bite of a female mosquito that has already become a carrier of the disease through biting an infected person. The programme to hand out the nets is financed by the Burkinabe state, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, the UN Children's Fund and the World Health Organisation. 
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