AFRO II Demonstration Project
Phase 4
Recruiting
- Conditions
- Malaria
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Recruiting
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 2400
Inclusion Criteria
•Houses are partly modern with potential spaces for mosquito entry and screening potential.
•Houses are at least 50 meters apart
•Houses have at least 2 children between 6 months and 13 years of age that reside and sleep in them.
Exclusion Criteria
•Houses in which potential spaces for mosquito entry are screened.
•Houses are less than 50 meters apart
•Houses that do not have at least 2 children between 6 months and 13 years of age that reside and sleep in them.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Vector adult density inside and outside screened houses will be compared with houses that use LLINs alone.;Clinical malaria in children between 6 months and 13 years measured using rapid diagnostic tests, dry blood spots and thick and thin blood smears in screened houses compared to houses that use LLINs only.;Assess the incremental cost of house screening in houses where this intervention has been implemented.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Sporozoite rates, human biting index and entomological inoculation rates both indoors and outdoors in screened houses will be compared to houses that use LLINs alone.;Parasite infection rate and parasite density in children between 6 months and 13 years in screened houses compared to houses that use LLINs only.;1. Evaluate the acceptability of house screening as a malaria control tool in the community. 2. Identify the barriers and opportunities for scale of house screening and advocate for the adoption of this intervention as a policy in national malaria control programmes of the study countries.