Assessment Of Knowledge And Utilization Of Intermittent Preventive Treatment For Malaria Among Pregnant Women Attending Antenatal Clinic In Jigawa State, Nigeria

Malaria remains the most devastating human parasitic infection in the world today.  it has been estimated that between 1-2 billion people throughout the world lives in areas at risk of malarial infection and each year up to 500 million people contract the disease out of which 1.7 million to 2.7 million people die.  Several recent reports indicate that more than 90% of these causalities are from Africa, south of the sahara where the most virulent species of the parasite Plasmodium Falciparum thrives.  Malaria is hyper endemic in all parts of Nigeria, which lies in the tropical re…