Housing modification for malaria control: impact of a "lethal house lure" intervention on malaria infection prevalence in a cluster randomised control trial in Cote d'Ivoire.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In recent years, the downward trajectory of malaria transmission has slowed and, in some places, reversed. New tools are needed to further reduce malaria transmission. One approach that has received recent attention is a novel house-based intervention comprising window screening (S) and general house repairs to make the house more mosquito proof, together with EaveTubes (ET) that provide an innovative way of targeting mosquitoes with insecticides as they search for human hosts at night. The combined approach of Screening + EaveTubes (SET) essentially turns the house into a 'lure and kill' device.

Methods

This study evaluated the impact of SET on malaria infection prevalence in Côte d'Ivoire and compares the result in the primary outcome, malaria case incidence. Ma

SUBMITTER: Cook J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10161487 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature