Syed Masud Ahmed (BRAC), Md. Akramul Islam (BRAC),Rashidul Haque (ICDDR,B) and Moazzem Hossain (GoB) examine i) the knowledge/awareness of the respondents on malaria ii) their health-seeking behaviour relevant to malaria iii) study the possession and use patterns of bed net iv) the prevalence of malarial infection including species-specific prevalence (P vivax and P falciparum) and its distribution. An elaborate two-stage cluster sampling technique was employed to get a representative sample from the 13 endemic districts. This report present findings from this baseline survey to inform programme design and fine-tune appropriate interventions.

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