Malaria
Conditions
Interventions
House screening arm
Control arm
Sponsors
World Health Organization Regional Office for Africa
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Inclusion criteria
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
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.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| 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
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| 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. | — |
Countries
Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Contacts
Public ContactPeter;Theresia Sangoro;Nkya
Postdoctoral Research Fellow;Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Outcome results
None listed