Malaria in Lukuli - a community greatly affected by malaria, but helped by widespread net use.
The area served by Hope Clinic Lukuli includes the wetlands and the waterways that flow to Lake Victoria. As the population of Makindye has expanded, these previously swampy, papyrus-covered areas have become the site of basic housing. In addition to homes being in permanently damp areas, ideal for mosquitoes to breed, the housing is very dense and the reservoir of people with malaria and the mosquitoes ensures constant infections. As waterways are diverted into culverts around people's walls and alongside roads, puddles form and will not drain and standing water is where mosquitoes breed. Among our out-patients, 35-40% a month are confirmed with malaria parasites.

Uganda's rain blesses mosquitoes too	Any house can hang a LLIN net	Dense housing helps malaria spread

Hope Clinic Lukuli has outreach programmes to inform the community of the risks of malaria and the benefits of using a mosquito net, ideally a Long-Lasting Insectide-treated Net (LLIN). These can be washed and retain the chemical impregnated in the material. We have had private donations to purchase 100 nets which we gave to households with children under 5 years old, and with the Malaria Consortium, we were a pilot site to retreat the old nets and to make them into LLIN. For the Roll Back Malaria campaign we have also assisted in giving nets to pregnant women.