An insecticide-treated bed-net campaign and childhood malaria in Burkina Faso

• Main Authors: Valérie R Louis (Author), Anja Schoeps (Author), Justin Tiendrebéogo (Author), Claudia Beiersmann (Author), Maurice Yé (Author), Marie R Damiba (Author), Guang Y Lu (Author), André H Mbayiha (Author), Manuela De Allegri (Author), Albrecht Jahn (Author), Ali Sié (Author), Heiko Becher (Author), Olaf Müller (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: The World Health Organization, 2015-11-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Objective To investigate if the first national insecticide-treated bed-net campaign in Burkina Faso, done in 2010, was followed by a decrease in childhood malaria in a district with high baseline transmission of the disease. Methods We obtained data on the prevalence of Plasmodium falciparu...