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Inequity in the use of Insecticide-Treated Nets among Children and Adolescents in Rural Guinea: A cohort study in rural Guinea

open access: yes
TOURE AA   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The epidemiological benefit of pyrethroid-pyrrole insecticide treated nets against malaria: an individual-based malaria transmission dynamics modelling study.

open access: yesLancet Glob Health
Churcher TS   +32 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Assessing the impact of insecticide-treated nets in the face of insecticide resistance on malaria control

Journal of Theoretical Biology, 2022
The mosquito-borne disease, malaria, continues to impose a devastating health and economic burden worldwide. In malaria-endemic areas, insecticide-treated nets (ITNs) have been useful in curtailing the burden of the disease. However, mosquito resistance to insecticides, decay in ITN efficacy, net attrition, etc., undermine the effectiveness of ITNs in ...
C. Ngonghala
openaire   +3 more sources

Field issues related to effectiveness of insecticide-treated nets in Tanzania

Medical and Veterinary Entomology, 2004
Abstract.  Insecticide‐treated nets (ITNs) impregnated with pyrethroid insecticides have become one of the most promising interventions to prevent malaria in highly endemic areas. Despite the large body of experience documenting their health impact and the best way to distribute them, some key practical issues ...
H Mshinda
exaly   +4 more sources

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

Effect of large-scale social marketing of insecticide-treated nets on child survival in rural Tanzania

open access: yesLancet, The, 2001
BACKGROUND: Insecticide-treated nets have proven efficacy as a malaria-control tool in Africa. However, the transition from efficacy to effectiveness cannot be taken for granted.
Salim Abdulla   +2 more
exaly   +2 more sources

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