Increasing coverage and decreasing inequity in insecticide-treated bed net use among rural Kenyan children.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Inexpensive and efficacious interventions that avert childhood deaths in sub-Saharan Africa have failed to reach effective coverage, especially among the poorest rural sectors. One particular example is insecticide-treated bed nets (ITNs). In this study, we present repeat observations of ITN coverage among rural Kenyan homesteads exposed at different times to a range of delivery models, and assess changes in coverage across socioeconomic groups.

Methods and findings

We undertook a study of annual changes in ITN coverage among a cohort of 3,700 children aged 0-4 y in four districts of Kenya (Bondo, Greater Kisii, Kwale, and Makueni) annually between 2004 and 2006. Cross-sectional surveys of ITN coverage were undertaken coincidentally with the incremental availabili

SUBMITTER: Noor AM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1949846 | biostudies-literature | 2007 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature