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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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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1371/journal.pmed.0040255
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+ Wellcome Trust
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Funding agency for:
Noor, A
Snow, R
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081829
079081
058922
+ British Department for International Development Kenya Programme
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KEN/2004/085
Kenyan Medical Research Institute
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Ministry of Health of the Government of Kenya
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Bibliographic Details
- 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
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1549-1676
- ISSN:
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1549-1277
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- English
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- Local pid:
- ora:2519
- Deposit date:
- 2009-01-09
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- Copyright holder:
- Noor et al
- Copyright date:
- 2007
- Notes:
- Citation: Noor, A. M. et al. (2007). 'Increasing coverage and decreasing inequity in insecticide-treated bed net use among rural Kenyan children', PLoS Medicine, 4(8), e255. [Available at http://medicine.plosjournals.org]. © 2007 Noor et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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