Associating the scale-up of insecticide-treated nets and use with the decline in all-cause child mortality in the Democratic Republic of Congo from 2005 to 2014

• Published in: Malaria Journal
• Main Authors: Johanna Karemere, Ismael G. Nana, Andrew Andrada, Olivier Kakesa, Eric Mukomena Sompwe, Joris Likwela Losimba, Jacques Emina, Aboubacar Sadou, Michael Humes, Yazoumé Yé
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: BMC 2021
• Subjects: Malaria; Control; ITN; Kaplan–Meier; Cox proportional hazards; All-cause child mortality; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Infectious and parasitic diseases; RC109-216; Arctic; Meier
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12936-021-03771-6; https://doaj.org/article/edc7b81333f74f59a127e373e634c631

Abstract Background To reduce the malaria burden and improve the socioeconomic status of its citizens, the Democratic Republic of Congo scaled up key malaria control interventions, especially insecticide-treated nets (ITNs), between 2005 and 2014. Since then, the effects of these interventions on ma...