Dengue & malaria global burden: A cross sectional study of awareness & practice of dengue and malaria & its difference among different age group in Pakistan

Abstract

Malaria and Dengue both are mosquito borne infections. Malaria is spread by Anopheles mosquitoes. It’s caused by a parasite called Plasmodium. When an infected mosquito bites us this parasite enters in to our body and goes to liver where it affects red blood cells. While dengue is a mosquito borne viral infection it’s also called break bone fever in severe cases it changes in to life threatening dengue hemorrhagic fever, resulting in low level of platelets, low blood pressure and bleeding occurs. This study was conducted based on the awareness of dengue fever and malaria the survey forms were distributed in 100 different age group of people to determine that how much people are aware of these two diseases. In our survey we aimed to determine the awareness between different age groups about dengue fever and malaria. We set three different age ranges first one is between 15-30 years, second one is between 30-45 years and third one is above 45 years. The result of first range for malaria is (72%) and for dengue is (66.42%). The result of second range for malaria is (31.93%) and for dengue is (36.36%) and the result of third range for malaria is (35.56%) and for dengue is (34.60%). By our result we can conclude that the people of first range and third range are more aware of malaria as compare to dengue, while in second range people are more aware of dengue as compare to malaria., Faculty of Pharmacy, Jinnah University for Women, Karachi-74600, Pakistan.