Low adherence and high cost as failure factors of impregnated bed nets with insecticide for malaria control in the Brazilian Amazon

Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical

Universidade de Brasília, Brasília¹  Santos, João Barberino¹ 

关键词: Malaria;    Malaria control;    Impregnated bed nets;    Amazon;   

DOI  :  10.1590/S0037-86821999000400001

学科分类：农业科学（综合）

来源: Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical

【 摘 要 】

In 1992 during a trial with deltamethrin-impregnated bed nets conducted in Porto Murtinho, municipality of Costa Marques, Rondonia, in the Brazilian Amazon, we investigated community compliance and the economic aspects capable of reducing the impact of this intervention on malaria morbidity. Impregnated bed nets were well accepted by the local population. However, compliance was found to be very low among adults over 15 years of age and mainly during the dry season. The cost of impregnated bed nets was US$18.83 for double-bed nets and US$13.82 for single bed nets. Despite the economic advantages of using impregnated bed nets subsidized by the government, the low compliance and local epidemiological factors do not allow to indicate the use of impregnated bed nets for mass malaria control in the Amazon region.

【 授权许可】

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