Furthermore within each region, pockets of localities and suburbs are identified to contribute the most of cases to the region’s caseload. Also, it is universally acknowledged that pregnant women and children under the age of five years are most susceptible to malaria. The World Health Organization states that Malaria infection during pregnancy is a significant public health problem with substantial risks for the pregnant woman, her fetus, and the newborn child.

The available facts imply that an outreach programme targeted at those particular suburbs and communities of people that are disproportionally affected by malaria would go a long way to reducing the burden of malaria in the country. Though gains have been made by interventions in nutrition in recent years, the situation still leaves much to be desired. In a recent survey, the Ghana Health Service identified as many as 10,000 “severely malnourished” children in five regions of the country; Central, Eastern, Northern, Upper West and Upper East. This figure is believed to be as much as 50,000 nationwide.

The most recent Ghana Demographic and Health Survey states that 66% of Ghanaian children under 5 years of age suffer from anemia. A significant number of Ghanaian children are malnourished. The statistics that about 66% of children under 5 have not been fed the they way ought to and thus anaemia (a reduction in the amount red blood cells or a lowered ability of the blood to carry oxygen) is very common. Children with anaemia also easily get sick with other diseases especially malaria.