Sustaining fragile gains: The need to maintain coverage with long-lasting insecticidal nets for malaria control and likely implications of not doing so

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2013, Pages

  Paintain, Lucy Smith ^a   Kolaczinski, Jan ^b   Renshaw, Melanie ^c   Filler, Scott ^b   Kilian, Albert ^d   Webster, Jayne ^a   Lokko, Kojo ^e   Lynch, Matthew ^e  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b TUBERCULOSIS AND MALARIA   (Switzerland)

^c AFRICAN LEADERS MALARIA ALLIANCE   (Tanzania)

^d Tropical Health LLP   (Spain)

^e JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; INSECTICIDE-TREATED BEDNETS; MALARIA; PROGRAM EVALUATION; TIME FACTORS; UNIVERSAL COVERAGE;

EID: 84893565056     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0083816     Document Type: Article

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