Insecticide Treated Nets
Assessing healthcare providers' knowledge and practices relating to insecticide treated nets and the prevention of malaria in Ghana, Laos, Senegal and Tanzania
... of insecticide-treated nets (ITNs) in preventing the disease [4-6], this intervention’s cost-effectiveness [7-10], and disappointing patterns in their ...
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Insecticide treated nets and malaria prevalence, Papua New Guinea, 2008 2014
... long-lasting insecticide-treated nets in Papua New Guinea was associated with a rapid and significant decline in malaria prevalence – the lowest prevalence ever recorded was in ...
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Evaluation of universal coverage of insecticide treated nets in western Kenya: field surveys
... non-insecticide-treated nets and ITNs that have lost efficacy may prevent mosquito bites, ef- fective ITNs can kill mosquitoes, adding to their impact in reducing malaria transmission ...of ...
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Insecticide treated nets provide protection against malaria to children in an area of insecticide resistance in Southern Benin
... While insecticide resistance in malaria vectors is wide- spread [2], there is little evidence of its impact on the effectiveness of nets and how in turn this influences epi- demiological outcomes [2, 9, ...
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Impact of insecticide treated nets on wild pyrethroid resistant Anopheles epiroticus population from southern Vietnam tested in experimental huts
... with insecticide-treated nets, that are acting at the same time as a physical and chemical ...pyrethroid-treated nets [5-7]. However, in the neighbouring country Benin, ...
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Insecticide treated nets provide protection against malaria to children in an area of insecticide resistance in Southern Benin
... While insecticide resistance in malaria vectors is wide- spread [2], there is little evidence of its impact on the effectiveness of nets and how in turn this influences epi- demiological outcomes [2, 9, ...
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Indoor residual spraying for preventing malaria in communities using insecticide‐treated nets
... or insecticide-treated nets ...The insecticide lasts for at least four months, killing mosquitoes that land on ...bed nets treated with insec- ticides, preventing mosquitoes from ...
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Delivering insecticide-treated nets for malaria prevention: innovative strategies
... Abstract: The wide-scale adoption of insecticide-treated nets (ITNs) has led to significant reductions in malaria morbidity and mortality worldwide. Delivery of ITNs to the 3.2 billion people at risk ...
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Insecticide treated nets mass distribution campaign: benefits and lessons in Zambia
... mosquito nets, transport, finances and other logistics required for each health centre catchment ...insecticidal nets (LLINs) in Zambia: coordination and key roles by level of imple- mentation, ...
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Increasing coverage of insecticide treated nets in rural Nigeria: implications of consumer knowledge, preferences and expenditures for malaria prevention
... included insecticide sprays, keeping doors and windows closed in the night, use of electric fans, applying mosquito repellent cream on the exposed body at night, clearing weeds around the house, wearing long ...
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Costs and effects of the Tanzanian national voucher scheme for insecticide treated nets
... by 2007) and a strong commercial sector for the produc- tion, distribution and retailing of mosquito nets has emerged. The NATNETS strategy consists of four compo- nents: i) An ITN 'cell' based at the National ...
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Determinants of use of insecticide-treated nets among pregnant women in Nigeria
... We found no significant difference between those who own just one net and those who own more than one net in a household, implying that while ownership of net is important, actual number owned by a household does not ...
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Malaria transmission pattern resilience to climatic variability is mediated by insecticide treated nets
... Methods and findings: Monthly time series (January 1983 through December 1999) of confirmed Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax infections in the archipelago were analysed. During this 17 year period, malaria ...
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Insecticide treated nets and malaria prevalence, Papua New Guinea, 2008 2014
... initial insecticide-treated net campaign, a signifi- cant reduction in the prevalence, incidence and transmission of malaria was documented at selected sites, even though insect vectors tended to feed ...
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Factors associated with the non use of insecticide treated nets in Rwandan children
... Results: Responses from a total of 6173 women aged 15–49 years living in 492 villages were included in the analysis. Risk factors for children not utilizing ITNs (25 %) included: (Odds ratio [95 % confidence interval]) ...
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Inequalities in purchase of mosquito nets and willingness to pay for insecticide treated nets in Nigeria: Challenges for malaria control interventions
... There continues to be debate about the specific mecha- nisms through which the target for increasing coverage, set in Abuja[7], will be achieved. On the one hand, the WHO Strategic Framework for Scaling-Up ITNs[8] advo- ...
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The combination of indoor residual spraying with insecticide treated nets versus insecticide treated nets alone for preventing malaria (Protocol)
... phenotypic insecticide resistance (based on WHO definitions if supplementary WHO cylinder assays or CDC bottle bioassays, or both, were performed whilst the trial was running); genotypic insecticide ...
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Household ownership and utilization of insecticide-treated nets under the Regional Artemisinin Resistance Initiative in Myanmar
... of insecticide-treated bed nets (ITNs) is one of the most effective forms of vector ...insecticidal nets (LLINs)/ITNs for malaria prevention ...bed nets (ITNs) through the free delivery ...
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Insecticide-treated nets for preventing malaria in pregnancy
... looks at how many times bigger or smaller the geometric mean of parasite density in the ITNs group is compared with the no nets group. This means that the value of no difference between the groups is one. The ...
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Insecticide treated nets for preventing malaria
... Despite being published before most trials included in this review were conducted, Choi 1995’s meta-analysis reported a similar im- pact of ITNs on the incidence of malaria infection. In comparison to participants ...
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