community was frequently exposed to malaria. Moreover,
use of repellent plants was high among the local
communities, where access to other alternative control
options was less. The level of knowledge of the
community is similar to a study done in other parts of the
country, in which 97.2% of the community had knowledge
and usage of mosquito repellent plants (Karunamoorthi et
al., 2009). On the other hand, the majority (82.1%) of the
local community believes plant repellents repel mosquito,
while 10.9% believes the repellents kill and repel, 2.2%
believes repellents kill and 2.2% believes repellents avoid
malaria transmission. However, currently the practice of
usage is very poor. This is probably due to access to
health center, free distribution of impregnated bed nets
and problem of accessibility of most of the mosquito
repellent plants in the study area.
The extracts from plant materials can be useful as