3rd Home visit is to a grandmother in a purple/pink striped shirt and family. She is called Sara Ortega Murillo, has three daughters, one son, The son (Dad of baby in orange) had malaria about 6-7 years ago.

Medardo Lagos (= dad shown holding his baby, who is dressed in orange): “Thanks to the bed nets there are now fewer cases of malaria”
The kid jumping on the bed under the nets is called Jan Carlos Escobar Ortega. Before, malaria was very common. The family received the nets 2 years ago, and saw a drop in cases since the last 1.5 years. Jarli goes outside to inspect the standing water with Sara Murillo. The place is just a few meters away from their house.

The department of Colón consists of 10 townships (total population: 315,000 in 2014), one of them is Tocoa, where we will visit several villages (Prieta, Lérida, and Chiripa). 65 health centers in total in the department. 2 Hospitals, 17 large health centers, rest are rural centers. The policy is that everybody who has a fever gets tested for malaria. Last year, 42000 tests were done in Colon. 1187 were positive. In the township of Tocoa, 10,077 tests were done, 460 positive. The Global Fund supports control of breeding sites, surveillance activities, testing of patients, and mosquito nets, among other things - not the medicine.