Malaria Center Needs Nets 
The Cambodia Daily

	Representatives of the Ministry of Health's National Malaria 
Center say they need 100,000 more mosquito nets to achieve their goal for 
1998.
	"We want to cover every man, woman and child in malarious areas 
with a mosquito net in the next year," said Dr Doung Socheat, deputy 
director of the National Malaria Center.
	The Cambodia Daily Mosquito Net Drive has been collecting 
money since last August to help realize that goal.
	The campaign was started to help stop malaria-one of the 
country's biggest killers. In 1997, more than 170,000 Cambodians 
contracted malaria and more than 800 of them died.
	Mosquito nets impregnated with insecticide are the best defense 
against malaria, medical experts say.
	So far, The Cambodia Daily Mosquito Net Drive has raised more 
than $30,000. Daily staff have accompanied personnel from the National 
Malaria Center to distribute nets to villagers in some of the most malarious 
regions of the country. 
	Already, about 2,000 nets have been distributed in thickly forested 
regions of Kampot and Kompong Speu provinces and to refugees 
returning from Thailand.
	The National Malaria Center currently has 140,000 mosquito nets 
to distribute. The Cambodia Daily will continue to run this campaign in 
order to reach the National Malaria Center's goal.