Monitoring the physical and insecticidal durability of the long-lasting insecticidal net DawaPlus^® 2.0 in three States in Nigeria.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Following guidance from the US President's Malaria Initiative, durability monitoring of DawaPlus^® 2.0 brand of long-lasting insecticidal net (LLIN) distributed during the 2015/16 mass campaign was set up in three ecologically different states: Zamfara, Ebonyi and Oyo.

Methods

This was a prospective cohort study of representative samples of households from each location, recruited at baseline, 1 to 6 months after the mass campaign. All campaign nets in the households were labelled and followed up over a period of 36 months in Zamfara and Ebonyi and 24 months in Oyo. Primary outcome was the "proportion of nets surviving in serviceable condition" based on attrition and integrity measures and the median survival in years. The outcome for insecticidal durabi

SUBMITTER: Obi E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7106771 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature