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

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Background: Inexpensive and efficacious interventions that avert childhood deaths in sub-Saharan Africa have failed to reach effective coverage, especially amongst 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 undertoo...

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10.1371/journal.pmed.0040255

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Institution:
"Centre for Geographic Medicine Research - Coast, Kenya Medical Research Institute/Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Nairobi, Kenya"
Department:
Malaria Public Health and Epidemiology Group
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Institution:
"Centre for Geographic Medicine Research - Coast, Kenya Medical Research Institute/Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Nairobi, Kenya"
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Malaria Public Health and Epidemiology Group
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Institution:
"Ministry of Health, Nairobi, Kenya"
Department:
Division of Malaria Control
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Institution:
"Centre for Geographic Medicine Research - Coast, Kenya Medical Research Institute/Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Nairobi, Kenya", "University of Oxford"
Department:
Medical Sciences Division - Clinical Vaccinology and Tropical Medicine,Centre for (CCVTM)
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Noor, A
Snow, R
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081829
079081
058922
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Ministry of Health of the Government of Kenya More from this funder
Publisher:
Public Library of Science Publisher's website
Journal:
PLoS Medicine Journal website
Volume:
4
Issue:
8
Article number:
e255
Publication date:
2007-08-01
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EISSN:
1549-1676
ISSN:
1549-1277
Language:
English
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ora:2519
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2009-01-09

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