AFRICAN CHILDREN UNDER 5 YEARS OF AGE SLEEPING UNDER INSECTICIDE TREATED MOSQUITO NETS

Malaria is a disease caused by the blood parasite Plasmodium, which is transmitted by mosquitoes. It causes 200 million illnesses per year and kills between one and three million people worldwide mostly children under the age of five.
Malaria is particularly devastating in Africa. Ninety percent of malaria-related deaths occur in Africa, where it is a leading killer of children. Malaria kills about 3,000 children each day in sub-Saharan Africa. There are 10 new cases of malaria every second. Every 45 seconds, a child in Africa dies from a malaria infection.
While malaria remains one of the deadliest diseases on the African continent, infections can be prevented either by spraying insecticides indoors or by sleeping under long-lasting insecticide-treated bed nets. Additionally, anti-malarial drugs, can be used to treat malaria once it is contracted. A few African countries have been very successful in getting families to sleep under treated mosquito, with the smaller and poorer - nations often doing much better than the bigger and richer ones:

Rank	Country	Percentage	Year
1	Rwanda	56	2007-08
2	Gambia	49	2005-06
3	Sao Tome and Principe	42	2006
4	Zambia	41	2008
5	Togo	38	2006
6	Ethiopia	33	2007
7	Senegal	29	2008-09
8	Ghana	28	2008
9	Sudan	28	2006
10	Mali	27	2006
11	Sierra Leone	26	2008
12	Tanzania	26	2007-08
13	Malawi	25	2006
14	Mozambique	23	2008
15	Benin	20	2006
16	Angola	18	2006-07
17	Central African Republic	15	2006
18	Cameroon	13	2006
19	Namibia	11	2006-07
20	Somalia	11	2006
21	Burkina Faso	10	2006
22	Uganda	10	2006
23	Burundi	8	2005
24	Niger	7	2006
25	Democratic Republic of Congo	6	2007
26	Congo	6	2005
27	Nigeria	6	2008
28	Kenya	5	2003
29	Côte d'Ivoire	3	2006
30	Zimbabwe	3	2005-06
31	Mauritania	2	2003-04
32	Guinea	1	2005
33	Djibouti	1	2006
34	Swaziland	1	2006-07

Source: http://www.childinfo.org/malaria_itnusage.php