A health education interventional study of this nature is not only an essential tool in primary control of an en- demic communicable disease such as malaria, it also relates to all aspects of health behavior including home management of diseases and self-medication. The effi- cacy levels of the drugs that were previously used on a wide programmatic basis for the management of uncom- plicated malaria have been undermined by the parasite resistance trend observed [2,3]. There has been an in- creasing antimalarial drug resistance to hitherto first and second line drugs (chloroquine and SP) which has com- pounded malaria therapy in the country leading to the adoption of artemether/lumefantrine (AL), an artermisi- nin.
