As the Roll Back Malaria RBMM) effort set out to halve the malaria burden by 2010 [9], the early years from 1999 through 2004 were characterized by low coverage [10] and unequal distribution of prevention interventions whereby the poorest households had the lowest coverage [11], [12].
These findings are not surprising given a wealth of literature showing a 'boomerang effect' of public health interventions, whereby effects contrary to those intended are evident [ 39].
This knowledge may lead to revisions to the barriers questionnaire and inform the design of interventions whereby barriers that have the greatest impact on nutrition adequacy are targeted.
A booster session will be conducted 6 weeks after teachers implement their curriculum interventions whereby children will be exposed to an abridged version of the intervention.
If PGIR is conducted, about two thirds of the hospitals use at least partly manualised interventions, whereby about one half uses published and the other half uses self-developed manuals.
Blinding of participants across trials was generally not employed, likely due to the nature of psychosocial interventions whereby participants are aware of new or additional care approaches they are part of.
