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The policy provide guidance for developing a specific health strategy for isolate population including nomads. With the aim to reduce barriers to health interventions, the policy insists on free-of-charge access to essential interventions against malaria including prevention, diagnostic, case management and communication for behavior change. To tackle malaria dynamic by reducing its related morbidity and mortality, a number of interventions including vector control, chemoprevention, and improved access to diagnostic tests and treatment, have been implemented as part of the national policy against malaria. In addition, because of their living environment (near settlements or on the islands of Lake Chad), their temporary area of living in the south of the country and their lack of immunity to malaria nomads are much more exposed to malaria than the settle population. Due to their lifestyle, nomadic populations are highly exposed to malaria. Another study found in the same region a malaria prevalence up to 30% among the nomadic population. In 2017, one study found the malaria prevalence of 7.7% in general population and 8.8% in children aged 59 months in the Sahelo–Saharian region of Chad. It remains the main cause of consultation at health facilities and hospitalizations. In Chad, malaria is endemic across most regions with areas at risk of epidemics. Strategic Decisional Engineering Consulting sarl WHO, Sulphadoxine-Pyrimethamine and Amodiaquine StraDEC, National Malaria Control Program ( Programme National de Lutte contre le Paludisme) PCA, Long–lasting insecticide–treated net NMCP (PNLP), Intermittent Preventive Treatment (pregnant women) LLIN, This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.ĭata Availability: All relevant data are within the paper and its Supporting information files.įunding: The author(s) received no specific funding for this work.Ĭompeting interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist. Received: DecemAccepted: MaPublished: April 14, 2022Ĭopyright: © 2022 Moukénet et al. PLoS ONE 17(4):Įditor: Marti Vall, University Hospital Vall d’Hebron, SPAIN Citation: Moukénet A, Richardson S, Moundiné K, Laoukolé J, Ngarasta N, Seck I (2022) Knowledge and practices surrounding malaria and LLIN use among Arab, Dazagada and Fulani pastoral nomads in Chad.