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Multi-country field trials comparing wash-resistance of PermaNet and conventional insecticide-treated nets against anopheline and culicine mosquitoes.

open access: yes, 2005
Insecticide-treated bednets (ITNs) are commonly used as a means of personal protection from malaria transmission by anopheline mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae).
Kayedi, MH   +8 more
core   +1 more source

Perception of bed nets and malaria prevention amongst users of insecticide-treated bed net in a semi-urban community in south-south Nigeria

open access: yesNigerian Journal of Medicine, 2007
Assessment of the use and success of insecticide treated nets (ITN) in malaria control requires a good insight into the people's perceptions of malaria and ITN. This study reports on the perception of mothers of malaria, malaria prevention, and ITN, before and one year after the ITNs was bought from a social marketing programme.The study was an ...
openaire   +3 more sources

Laboratory and experimental hut evaluation of mosquito net and indoor residual spray (IRS) insecticides for improved malaria control [PDF]

open access: yes
Since the start of Roll Back Malaria (RBM) in 1998 funding for malaria control has increased dramatically, resulting in the current peak of $2.5billion spent on global malaria control annually.
Oxborough, RM
core   +1 more source

A descriptive review of next-generation insecticide-treated bed nets for malaria control

open access: yesFrontiers in Malaria
To date, insecticide-treated bed nets are the most effective tool in preventing malaria-related morbidity and mortality. All distributed bed nets contain pyrethroid insecticides; however, widespread resistance to this class in the malaria vectors,Anophelesspp., has led to the development of dual active ingredient bed nets, termed ‘next-generation bed ...
Antonia L. Böhmert   +4 more
openaire   +1 more source

Assessment of a national voucher scheme to deliver insecticide-treated mosquito nets to pregnant women.

open access: yes, 2010
BACKGROUND\ud \ud The benefits of a health-related intervention may be compromised by the challenges of delivering the intervention on a large scale.
Hanson, Kara   +17 more
core   +1 more source

Household bed net ownership and use among under-5 children in Nigeria

open access: yesResearch and Reports in Tropical Medicine, 2013
D Chidiebere Osuorah,1,2 Chijioke Elias Ezeudu,2 Stanley Kenechi Onah,2 Obinna Tochukwu Anyabolu31Child Survival Unit, Medical Research Council UK, The Gambia Unit, Banjul, The Gambia; 2Department of Pediatrics, Nnamdi Azikiwe University Teaching ...
Osuorah DC   +3 more
doaj  

The effect of insecticide-treated bed nets on mortality of Gambian children

Lancet, The, 1991
Insecticide treatment of bed nets ("mosquito nets") may be a cheap and acceptable method of reducing the morbidity and mortality caused by malaria. In a rural area of The Gambia, bed nets in villages participating in a primary health-care (PHC) scheme were treated with permethrin at the beginning of the malaria transmission season.
Greg Fegan, F C Shenton, P L Alonso
exaly   +5 more sources

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