{"id":1578,"date":"2014-08-17T18:28:52","date_gmt":"2014-08-17T17:28:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/blogs\/english\/?p=1578"},"modified":"2016-07-21T09:41:54","modified_gmt":"2016-07-21T09:41:54","slug":"fighting-against-malaria-by-catnip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/fighting-against-malaria-by-catnip\/","title":{"rendered":"Fighting against malaria by catnip"},"content":{"rendered":"

The International Cooperation Ethics Advisory Agency (ACECI) has exposed very recently the first products anti-mosquitoes made from catnip plant. Soaps, candles, aroma for cleaning large spaces, lotion and cream anti mosquito are now available at ACECI office.<\/strong>–By Lorraine Josiane Manishatse<\/em><\/p>\n

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Different articles of anti-mosquito products made of catnip by ACECI \u00a9Iwacu<\/p><\/div>\n

Catnip plant has been imported in Burundi from Canada by the Founding Executive of ACECI Karirekinyana Jinette. As ACECI is an International Organization, its main objective is to fight against poverty in general and malaria in particular. Then in Burundi ACECI project fights against malaria by products made from catnip. Nepata cataria commonly called catnip is a mosquito and a fly repellent. Oil isolated from it by steam distillation is a repellent against insects, in particular mosquitoes, cockroaches and termites.
\nAccording to Esp\u00e9rance Niyonzima, the Assistant Founding Executive of ACECI, that plant is more productive in hot area than in cold one.\u201cWe have planted seeds of catnip at Rutana, Bujumbura and Nyabiraba but in the latter area the productivity is not good,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

Producing cheap anti mosquito products is their main objective<\/strong><\/p>\n

She indicates that after realizing that imported spray and other products of mosquito repellents are very expensive, they thought to produce simple products accessible to the majority of Burundians. \u201cThe majority of Burundians are not able to pay imported spray anti-mosquito products\u201d, she regrets.\u00a0 She mentions that among those produced articles there are toilet soaps at BIF 350, candles at BIF 500 and 5000 one piece. \u201cWe produce according to social classes,\u201d she says. She explains that they have chosen to produce anti-mosquito candles because the majority of Burundian households don\u2019t have electricity. They also produce aroma for cleaning great species. \u201cWe have used that product at \u201cPrince Louis Rwagasore\u201d Clinic in maternity rooms and we have realized that the feedback is really satisfactory,\u201d she praises.<\/p>\n

She highlights that those products are efficient for repelling mosquitoes, for at least, a duration of two hours.
\nIt is worth mentioning that those products are now available at ACECI office, Rohero II, Mugamba Avenue n\u00b0 11. Niyonzima recognizes that their products are still quite expensive because their productivity is low. \u201cWe hope that when we improve our productivity, the price will decrease because our main objective is that the majority of Burundians use them,\u201d she underlines.
\nNiyonzima warns people not to replace mosquito nets with anti mosquito products: \u201call those products are used before going to bed, so, people should continue to sleep under insecticide \u2013treated nets\u201d, she concludes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The International Cooperation Ethics Advisory Agency (ACECI) has exposed very recently the first products anti-mosquitoes made from catnip plant. Soaps, candles, aroma for cleaning large spaces, lotion and cream anti mosquito are now available at ACECI office.–By Lorraine Josiane Manishatse Catnip plant has been imported in Burundi from Canada by the Founding Executive of ACECI […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3179,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[33,135],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1578"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1578"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3188,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1578\/revisions\/3188"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}