Sustaining fragile gains: the need to maintain coverage with long-lasting insecticidal nets for malaria control and likely implications of not doing so.
Global commitment to malaria control has greatly increased over the last decade. Long-lasting insecticidal nets (LLINs) have become a core intervention of national malaria control strategies and over 450 million nets were distributed in sub-Saharan Africa between 2008 and 2012. Despite the impressiv...
Main Authors: | Lucy Smith Paintain, Jan Kolaczinski, Melanie Renshaw, Scott Filler, Albert Kilian, Jayne Webster, Kojo Lokko, Matthew Lynch |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2013-01-01
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Series: | PLoS ONE |
Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3873961?pdf=render |
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