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Effect of insecticide-treated bed net usage on under-five mortality in northern Ghana [PDF]

Malaria Journal, 2015
على الرغم من أن معدل وفيات الأطفال دون سن الخامسة يبدو أنه آخذ في الانخفاض في غانا، إلا أن الجزء الشمالي من البلاد لديه مستويات أعلى من وفيات الأطفال دون سن الخامسة مقارنة بالمعدلات الوطنية. يبحث هذا البحث في الارتباطات بين ارتفاع معدل وفيات الأطفال دون سن الخامسة بين الأطفال في الجزء الشمالي من غانا، مع التركيز على استخدام الناموسيات المعالجة ...
Clifford Afoakwah, Jacob Nunoo, Francis Kwaw Andoh   +2 more
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Equity and coverage of insecticide-treated bed nets in an area of intense transmission of Plasmodium falciparum in Tanzania [PDF]

Malaria Journal, 2009
Abstract Background There is no clear consensus on the most sustainable and effective distribution strategy for insecticide treated bed nets (ITNs). Tanzania has been a leader in social marketing but it is still not clear if this can result in high and equitable levels of coverage ...
Mtei Frank, Mandike Renata, Mtove George, Bernard Jubilate, Maxwell Caroline, Reyburn Hugh   +5 more
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Costs of insecticide-treated bed net distribution systems in sub-Saharan Africa [PDF]

Malaria Journal, 2020
Background Insecticide-treated nets (ITNs) are one of the most cost-effective measures for preventing malaria. The World Health Organization recommends both large-scale mass distribution campaigns and continuous distributions (CD) as part of a ...
Sara S. Scates, Timothy P. Finn, Janna Wisniewski, David Dadi, Renata Mandike, Mwinyi Khamis, George Greer, Naomi Serbantez, Sylvester Segbaya, Prince Owusu, Jules Mihigo, Lilia Gerberg, Angela Acosta, Hannah Koenker, Joshua Yukich   +14 more
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An insecticide-treated bed-net campaign and childhood malaria in Burkina Faso

Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2015
Objective To investigate if the first national insecticide-treated bed-net campaign in Burkina Faso, done in 2010, was followed by a decrease in childhood malaria in a district with high baseline transmission of the disease.
Valérie R Louis, Anja Schoeps, Justin Tiendrebéogo, Claudia Beiersmann, Maurice Yé, Marie R Damiba, Guang Y Lu, André H Mbayiha, Manuela De Allegri, Albrecht Jahn, Ali Sié, Heiko Becher, Olaf Müller   +12 more
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Optimal insecticide-treated bed-net coverage and malaria treatment in a malaria-HIV co-infection model

Journal of Biological Dynamics, 2017
We propose and study a mathematical model for malaria-HIV co-infection transmission and control, in which malaria treatment and insecticide-treated nets are incorporated.
Jemal Mohammed-Awel, Eric Numfor
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Host-seeking activity of a Tanzanian population of Anopheles arabiensis at an insecticide treated bed net [PDF]

Malaria Journal, 2017
Background Understanding how mosquitoes respond to long lasting insecticide treated nets (LLINs) is fundamental to sustaining the effectiveness of this essential control tool.
Josephine E. A. Parker, Natalia C. Angarita Jaimes, Katherine Gleave, Fabian Mashauri, Mayumi Abe, Jackline Martine, Catherine E. Towers, David Towers, Philip J. McCall   +8 more
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Entomological determinants of insecticide-treated bed net effectiveness in Western Myanmar [PDF]

Malaria Journal, 2013
En un ensayo de control aleatorizado de grandes grupos de mosquiteros tratados con insecticida (MTI) en el oeste de Myanmar, se encontró que el efecto protector de la MTI contra la malaria era muy variable y, en conjunto, el efecto no fue estadísticamente significativo.
Frank Smithuis, Moe Kyaw Kyaw, U Ohn Phe, Ingrid van der Broek, Nina Katterman, Colin Rogers, Patrick Almeida, Piet A. Kager, Kasia Stepniewska, Yoel Lubell, Julie A. Simpson, Nicholas J. White   +11 more
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Quantifying the direct and indirect protection provided by insecticide treated bed nets against malaria [PDF]

Nature Communications, 2022
Abstract Long lasting insecticidal nets (LLINs) provide both direct and indirect protection against malaria. As pyrethroid resistance evolves in mosquito vectors, it will be useful to understand how the specific benefits LLINs afford individuals and communities may be affected.
H. Juliette T. Unwin, Ellie Sherrard-Smith, Thomas S. Churcher, Azra C. Ghani   +3 more
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INSECTICIDE-TREATED BED NETS IN RONDÔNIA, BRAZIL: EVALUATION OF THEIR IMPACT ON MALARIA CONTROL [PDF]

Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo, 2014
Mosquito nets treated with long-lasting insecticide (LLINs), when used in compliance with guidelines of the World Health Organization, may be effective for malaria vector control. In 2012, approximately 150,000 LLINs were installed in nine municipalities in the state of Rondônia.
Vieira, Gabriel de Deus, Basano, Sergio de Almeida, Katsuragawa, Tony Hiroshi, Camargo, Luís Marcelo Aranha   +3 more
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Evaluation of Olyset insecticide-treated nets distributed seven years previously in Tanzania. [PDF]

, 2004
BACKGROUND\ud \ud Insecticide-treated nets represent currently a key malaria control strategy, but low insecticide re-treatment rates remain problematic. Olyset nets are currently one of two long-lasting insecticidal nets recommended by WHO.
Lengeler, Christian, Godfrey Mubyazi, Duchon, Stéphane, Talbert, Alison, Adriana Tami, Christian Lengeler, Tami, Adriana; id_orcid, Mubyazi, Godfrey, Hassan Mshinda, Tami, Adriana, Stéphane Duchon, Mshinda, Hassan, Alison Talbert, Duchon Stéphane, Talbert Alison, Lengeler Christian, Mshinda Hassan, Tami Adriana, Mubyazi Godfrey, Talbert A, Mshinda H, Duchon S, Mubyazi G, Lengeler C, Tami A   +24 more
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