Impacts of Improved Cookstove Interventions on Personal Exposure to Carbon Monoxide and Particulate Matter in Zambia.

ABSTRACT: Eighty-four percent of sub-Saharan African households rely on polluting fuels (e.g., wood, charcoal) for cooking, leading to high levels of household air pollution (HAP). While switching to modern fuels/stoves could decrease HAP levels, they are not always available or affordable. Improved biomass cookstoves could provide an intermediate step supporting transitions from traditional biomass to clean burning fuels/stoves. We conducted two stove intervention trials in Lusaka, Zambia using targeted marketing/incentives to motivate participants to use improved biomass stoves, either the Mimi Moto (pellet) or the EcoZoom (charcoal). Before the intervention, 65% of participants exclusively used charcoal, while 27% relied on electricity to some extent for cooking. We measured 24-hr personal exposu

SUBMITTER: Parsons S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12450612 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature