Predicting the impact of insecticide-treated bed nets on malaria transmission: the devil is in the detail
Open Access
- 16 November 2009
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Malaria Journal
- Vol. 8 (1), 256
- https://doi.org/10.1186/1475-2875-8-256
Abstract
Insecticide-treated bed nets (ITNs), including long-lasting insecticidal nets (LLINs), play a primary role in global campaigns to roll back malaria in tropical Africa. Effectiveness of treated nets depends on direct impacts on individual mosquitoes including killing and excite-repellency, which vary considerably among vector species due to variations in host-seeking behaviours. While monitoring and evaluation programmes of ITNs have focuses on morbidity and all-cause mortality in humans, local entomological context receives little attention. Without knowing the dynamics of local vector species and their responses to treated nets, it is difficult to predict clinical outcomes when ITN applications are scaled up across African continent. Sound model frameworks incorporating intricate interactions between mosquitoes and treated nets are needed to develop the predictive capacity for scale-up applications of ITNs.Keywords
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