Researching LLIN Usage On World Malaria Day

On World Malaria Day 2012, Integrity is pleased to announce that Director Andrew Cleary has been in South Sudan’s Central Equatoria state managing a baseline survey for a long lasting insecticide net (LLIN) continuous distribution pilot. Andrew is managing this survey of 600 households in Lainya County, which lies between Juba and Yei cities, for Integrity’s partner the Malaria Consortium. The Integrity team has also worked with the support of South Sudan’s Ministry of Health and the National Malaria Control Programme on this project.

Andrew has been working with senior team members James Khalil, Augustino Ting, Mansuk Moses, Gordon Wani and Martin Wani, as well as three teams of four enumerators. The survey will provide baseline data for the Malaria Consortium’s upcoming pilot to continuously distribute LLINs in Lainya.

The broad application of continuous distribution of LLINs is a recent development in malaria control practice, as it has been found that a) sleeping under bed nets significantly reduces incidence of malaria in affected areas and b) bed nets become unusable more rapidly than had previously been thought. Continuous distribution of nets, therefore, is a process at the forefront of malaria control programming worldwide.

The Integrity team is very pleased to be involved at this start of this community health intervention, and looks forward to continuing to expand our health sector and survey research expertise.

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