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An exploratory qualitative study on perceptions about mosquito bed nets in the Niger Delta: what are the barriers to sustained use? [PDF]

, 2011
Background: The effectiveness of malaria control programs is determined by an array of complex factors, including the acceptability and sustained use of preventative measures such as the bed net.
Petford, Nick; id_orcid, Kate Galvin, null Davies, Galvin, Kathleen, null Ajose, Galvin, Kathleen T., Ajose, Frances, Davies, Dai, Petford, N, Ajose, F, null Petford, Petford, Nick, Galvin, KT, Davies, D   +13 more
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Predicting the impact of insecticide-treated bed nets on malaria transmission: the devil is in the detail [PDF]

Malaria Journal, 2009
Insecticide-treated bed nets (ITNs), including long-lasting insecticidal nets (LLINs), play a primary role in global campaigns to roll back malaria in tropical Africa. Effectiveness of treated nets depends on direct impacts on individual mosquitoes including killing and excite-repellency, which vary considerably among vector species due to variations ...
Novak Robert J, Gu Weidong
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Implementation of insecticide-treated malaria bed nets in Tanzania: a systematic review

Journal of Global Health Reports, 2022
Background Malaria is a significant cause of morbidity, mortality, and economic burden among the Tanzanian population. An effective form of personal protection against malaria is the insecticide-treated bed net (ITN). Although Tanzania has made great efforts to implement ITNs in the general population, gaps in use, access, coverage, and ownership ...
Obidimma Ezezika, Yasmine El-Bakri, Abitha Nadarajah, Kathryn Barrett   +3 more
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From intervention to impact: modelling the potential mortality impact achievable by different long-lasting, insecticide-treated net delivery strategies. [PDF]

, 2012
BACKGROUND: The current target of universal access to long-lasting, insecticide-treated nets (LLIN) is 80% coverage to reduce malaria deaths by 75% by 2015. So far, campaigns have been the main channel for large-scale delivery of LLINs, however the World
Hanson, Kara, Jo Lines, Lines, Jo, Lucy C Okell, Paintain, LS, Lines Jo, Webster, Jayne, Paintain Lucy, Hanson Kara, Okell Lucy C, Okell, Lucy C, Paintain, Lucy Smith, Hanson, K, Jayne Webster, Kara Hanson, Okell, LC, Lines, J, Webster Jayne, Lucy Paintain, Webster, J   +19 more
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Creating an "enabling environment" for taking insecticide treated nets to national scale: the Tanzanian experience. [PDF]

, 2005
INTRODUCTION: Malaria is the largest cause of health services attendance, hospital admissions and child deaths in Tanzania. At the Abuja Summit in April 2000 Tanzania committed itself to protect 60% of its population at high risk of malaria by 2005.
Kitua, Andrew, Kitua Andrew, Kramer Karen, Mwita, Alex, Christian Lengeler, Miller, Jane E, Ritha JA Njau, Miller Jane E, Lengeler Christian, Stephen M Magesa, Njau Ritha JA, Njau, Ritha JA, Magesa, Stephen M, Lengeler, Christian, deSavigny, Don, Karen Kramer, Jane E Miller, deSavigny Don, Don deSavigny, Mwita Alex, Magesa Stephen M, Kramer, Karen, Andrew Kitua, Alex Mwita   +23 more
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Effects of community-level bed net coverage on malaria morbidity in Lilongwe, Malawi

Malaria Journal, 2017
Background The protective effect of insecticide-treated bed nets against individual-level malaria transmission is well known, however community-level effects are less understood.
Veronica Escamilla, Alisa Alker, Leonard Dandalo, Jonathan J. Juliano, William C. Miller, Portia Kamthuza, Tapiwa Tembo, Gerald Tegha, Francis Martinson, Michael Emch, Irving F. Hoffman   +10 more
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Annual distributions of insecticide-treated nets to schoolchildren and other key populations to maintain higher ITN access than with mass campaigns: a modelling study for mainland Tanzania

Malaria Journal, 2022
Background Since 2013, the National Malaria Control Programme in mainland Tanzania has deployed annual distributions of insecticide-treated nets (ITNs) through primary schools to maintain ITN access and use.
Hannah Koenker, Matt Worges, Benjamin Kamala, Peter Gitanya, Frank Chacky, Samwel Lazaro, Charles Dismas Mwalimu, Sijenunu Aaron, Deodatus Mwingizi, David Dadi, Ato Selby, Naomi Serbantez, Lulu Msangi, Dana Loll, Joshua Yukich   +14 more
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Impact of promoting longer-lasting insecticide treatment of bed nets upon malaria transmission in a rural Tanzanian setting with pre-existing high coverage of untreated nets [PDF]

, 2010
: BACKGROUND: The communities of Namawala and Idete villages in southern Tanzania experienced extremely high malaria transmission in the 1990s. By 2001-03, following high usage rates (75% of all age groups) of untreated bed nets, a 4.2-fold reduction in ...
Beatrice Chipwaza, Bart GJ Knols, Nathan, R., Maliti, D., Chipwaza, B., Knols, B. G., Kihonda, Japhet, Christian Lengeler, Lengeler Christian, Killeen, G. F., Takken, W., J Derek Charlwood, Lengeler, Christian, Knols Bart GJ, Maliti, Deodatus, Mwanyangala, M.A., Takken, Willem, Lwetoijera, D. W., Smith, T. A., Killeen, Gerry F., Charlwood J Derek, Lwetiojera, Dickson W., Russell Tanya L, Japhet Kihonda, Lwetoijera Dickson W, Mwanyangala, Mathew A., Killeen Gerry F, Charlwood, J.D., Thomas A Smith, Willem Takken, Mwanyangala Mathew A, Killeen, G.F., Mwanyangala, M. A., Nathan Rose, Knols, B.G.J., Chipwaza Beatrice, Nathan, Rose, Deodatus Maliti, Lwetoijera, D.W., Kihonda, J., Smith, Thomas A., Kihonda Japhet, Rose Nathan, Russell, T. L., Charlwood, J. Derek, Lengeler, C., Tanya L Russell, Dickson W Lwetoijera, Gerry F Killeen, Takken Willem, Charlwood, J. D., Mathew A Mwanyangala, Smith, T.A., Russell, T.L., Smith Thomas A, Russell, Tanya L., Knols, Bart, Maliti Deodatus, Chipwaza, Beatrice, Mwanyangala, Mathew A, Charlwood, J Derek, Smith, Thomas A, Killeen, Gerry F, Lwetoijera, Dickson W, Russell, Tanya L, Knols, Bart GJ   +65 more
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Mass distribution of free insecticide-treated nets do not interfere with continuous net distribution in Tanzania [PDF]

, 2014
To protect the most vulnerable groups from malaria (pregnant women and infants) the Tanzanian Government introduced a subsidy (voucher) scheme in 2004, on the basis of a public-private partnership.
Lengeler, Christian, Mandike, Renata, Karen Kramer, Msengwa, Amina, Amina Msengwa, Ikenna C Eze, Christian Lengeler, Renata Mandike, Eze, Ikenna C., Kramer, Karen, Lengeler C, Msengwa A, Eze IC, Mandike R, Kramer K   +14 more
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Malaria in pregnant women in an area with sustained high coverage of insecticide-treated bed nets [PDF]

Malaria Journal, 2008
Since 2000, the World Health Organization has recommended a package of interventions to prevent malaria during pregnancy and its sequelae that includes the promotion of insecticide-treated bed nets (ITNs), intermittent preventive treatment in pregnancy (IPTp), and effective case management of malarial illness.
Kabanywanyi, Abdunoor M, Macarthur, John R, Stolk, Wilma A, Habbema, J Dik F, Mshinda, Hassan, Bloland, Peter B, Abdulla, Salim, Kachur, S Patrick   +7 more
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