Introduction
malaria, infections
DISEASE TRANSMISSION, MALARIA, DISEASE, INFECTIONS, MALARIA
Malaria remains the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in economically disadvantaged tropical and subtropical regions, particularly in Africa [As the transmission intensity reduces due to the widespread use of malaria prevention measures, there is change in age pattern of malaria. The proportion of clinical malaria among under-five children was above 60% in high endemic settings but the same age group account for below 20% in low transmission settings [Most of these infections among SAC are asymptomatic and not presented to a health facility for treatment to halt either progression to clinical or severe malaria and/or interrupt disease transmission [Unfortunately, SAC are the least likely to get proven malaria intervention measures such as LLINs and prompt diagnosis and effective treatment. Their care givers visit informal shops for the management of their clinical malaria and are less likely to sleep under insecticide-treated bed nets as compared to other population segments [Ethiopia is one of the malaria-endemic countries in the SSA, and both Prompt diagnosis and treatment of malaria and vector control measures are the major malaria prevention practices in Ethiopia. As a means of disease prevention, Ethiopia has deployed a huge workforce of health extension workers in the fight against malaria in 2004. At the same time, Ethiopia introduced LLINs (distributed free of charge) [To overcome the underutilization of malaria prevention measures and broader strategies to control and eliminate malaria, different researches suggest the use of targeted and well-tailored awareness creation to increase the utilization of malaria prevention measures [