Ethiopian national malaria indicator survey of 2007 indicated that about 71% of the rural community and 80.5% of the urban community have heard about malaria. This survey also reported that about 87% of Amhahara national regional state respondents had heard about malaria. However, only 30.1% of the rural and 59.7% of urban community knew that mosquito bite can transmit malaria. This survey indicated that 52.7% of pregnant women, 51.8% of children have slept under ITN in the previous day of the interview. Thus, understanding of the current knowledge of the community beliefs and practices with respect to the disease is required to obtain and maintain the community involvement in surveillance and control activities [3].
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Zewdie Aderaw Molla Gedefaw (2013) studied this question.