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Malaria is a potentially fatal illness for visitors to tropical and subtropical Africa, where it is transmitted by the bite of the female Anopheles mosquito.

Over 80% of the world's cases of malaria occur in sub-Saharan Africa, where over one million people die from the disease each year.

Here's How:

1. Visit your Health Care Provider at least 4-6 weeks before leaving for Africa.

2. Explain that you'll be visiting Africa and will require anti-malarial medication.

3. Once you've bought the anti-malarial medication, you'll need to begin using it - as directed by your Health Care Provider - at least a week before leaving for Africa.

4. Wear clothing to conceal as much of your body as practical, to prevent mosquito bites.

5. Use a spray-on or roll-on insect repellent containing di-ethyl toluamide, also known as DEET.

6. Sleep under the mosquito net which will have been provided for you.

7. Before retiring for the night, spray the room with a suitable pyrethroid-containing insecticide.

8. Consider burning a mosquito coil during the night. Mosquito coils are insecticide-laden and burn slowly for up to 8 hours, releasing smoke which will kill all mosquitos in the room.
9. Avoid going outside after dark: mosquitos are active from dusk to dawn.

10. If possible, allow a fan to blow over you as you sleep. This will prevent mosquitos from finding you, which they do by detecting the carbon dioxide you exhale.

11. As mosquitos are attracted to lights, avoid leaving lights on at night.

12. Close all doors and windows at night.

13. Don't forget to continue taking the anti-malarial tablets for four weeks after you leave the malarious area.

1. After visiting a malarious area, monitor yourself and your children for malarial symptoms, which include body aches, tiredness, headaches, a sore throat, diarrhoea, and fever.

2. Malarial symptoms are rarely dramatic, and are often mistaken for influenza.

3. Take antimalarial medication exactly on schedule without missing doses.