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Bed nets as prevention method was mentioned by 524(80.8%), but only 214(59.3%)were using bed nets.The direct cost of malaria treatment ranged from 0.19 to 76.6 US$ with an average 4.7us $; and the media was the main source of information about malaria to 196 (33.4%)of mothers, health worker to 143(24.4%) and 225(38.3%) had only their own experience.Education and age of the mother affects their knowledge & practices towardsfebrile children especially in treatment seeking, using tepid spongies at home and goodknowledge about malaria prevention. Implementing IMCI strategy & reducing the costof treatment for under 5 years children are important in improving health seeking behaviourand then malaria control.The Ethics of Practicing PaediatricsA.T.H. ElidrissyThe duty of physician practicing paediatrics is to care for a sick child with the aim ofpreventing mortality and reducing morbidity. To achieve this it is vital to prevent tlekilling 6 diseases . The cost of providing curative and preventive measures is the e-sponsibility of the government and it is a priority tm medical personnel. Islam staredthe support of children's life and health. The first person to do this was the secoidKhalifa Syidna Om er IBN Al Khattab who was giving subsidiary to prevent malnutitionto every child after being weaned, but on noticing that mothers were resolving toearly weaning (i.e. before completing 2 years), he ordered subsistence for every chldborn in the Islamic governments from Iraq to Egypt .Accordingly health of childenis the responsibility of the Islamic government .Parents specially in the poor secorof the community can not afford to pay for cost of curative paediatrics. We paediaricians,and definitely everybody else, strongly believe that children are born to li-e.Accordingly, any childhood disease is an emergency and comes under the PresidentOmer AI-Bashir's ruling for Free Emergency Services to everybody. Any sick chldshould benefit from this presidential statement and treated free of charge in any snteor national government curative institute.The physicians working in paediatrics also should follow the code of ethics of practcewhich is in line with all religions. In Islam, Ibn Alqa'im Aljouzia has put the 20 conmandsof ethical practice which should be followed by every physician.Our aim is a healthy children community to have a healthy future based on devotim,justice and mercy.