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Despite the progress, however, a third of households in areas with malaria transmission in sub-Saharan Africa did not have a single treated net.
The modern norm of life-saving bednets is something called a "long-lasting insecticide treated net". It is powerful and cheap due to a sophisticated manufacturing process that embeds insecticide into the weave of the nets.
All women received a long-lasting insecticide treated net.
ITN use was defined as sleeping under a treated net every night, which had less than three holes into which a finger could comfortably fit.
Reported bednet use among study children was low (13%) and insecticide treated net use very low (2%); there were no data for 26% of children.
This is a very high percentage of bed net and insecticide treated net (ITN) ownership as compared to other areas in the Kenya [15].
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For every two trials a control assay was run, in which the acetone-treated net was used in place of the insecticide treated one.
Use of a topical repellent may provide considerable protection and the benefits of either using an insecticide-treated net (ITN) or living in an area which is treated with larvicide are clearly significant.
As they pointed out, a bednet that is treated once every six months provides a much higher degree of protection from malaria than a non-treated net.
Yet few households have more than one insecticide-treated net to sleep under.
For example, when other funding fell short, the World Bank recently stepped in with $25 million for Tanzania, keeping its successful insecticide-treated net program going.
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