Strategies towards attainment of universal coverage of long lasting insecticide treated nets (LLINs) distribution: experiences and lessons from Ghana

Long lasting Insecticidal nets continue to provide effective protection against disease vectors including mosquitoes that transmit malaria. In many countries, promotion of LLIN usage and ownership has focused on the attainment of universal coverage. However modalities for achieving these objectives...

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Autores principales: Gakpey, Kwame, Baffoe-Wilmot, Aba, Malm, Keziah, Dadzie, Samuel, Bart-Plange, Constance
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Letter to the Editor
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4722743/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26794136
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13071-016-1328-5
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author Gakpey, Kwame
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Dadzie, Samuel
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description Long lasting Insecticidal nets continue to provide effective protection against disease vectors including mosquitoes that transmit malaria. In many countries, promotion of LLIN usage and ownership has focused on the attainment of universal coverage. However modalities for achieving these objectives remain a challenge in many countries. This paper shares Ghana’s experience and strategies adopted to attain universal LLINs coverage.
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spelling pubmed-47227432016-01-23 Strategies towards attainment of universal coverage of long lasting insecticide treated nets (LLINs) distribution: experiences and lessons from Ghana Gakpey, Kwame Baffoe-Wilmot, Aba Malm, Keziah Dadzie, Samuel Bart-Plange, Constance Parasit Vectors Letter to the Editor Long lasting Insecticidal nets continue to provide effective protection against disease vectors including mosquitoes that transmit malaria. In many countries, promotion of LLIN usage and ownership has focused on the attainment of universal coverage. However modalities for achieving these objectives remain a challenge in many countries. This paper shares Ghana’s experience and strategies adopted to attain universal LLINs coverage. BioMed Central 2016-01-22 /pmc/articles/PMC4722743/ /pubmed/26794136 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13071-016-1328-5 Text en © Gakpey et al. 2016 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
spellingShingle Letter to the Editor
Gakpey, Kwame
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Malm, Keziah
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Strategies towards attainment of universal coverage of long lasting insecticide treated nets (LLINs) distribution: experiences and lessons from Ghana
title Strategies towards attainment of universal coverage of long lasting insecticide treated nets (LLINs) distribution: experiences and lessons from Ghana
title_full Strategies towards attainment of universal coverage of long lasting insecticide treated nets (LLINs) distribution: experiences and lessons from Ghana
title_fullStr Strategies towards attainment of universal coverage of long lasting insecticide treated nets (LLINs) distribution: experiences and lessons from Ghana
title_full_unstemmed Strategies towards attainment of universal coverage of long lasting insecticide treated nets (LLINs) distribution: experiences and lessons from Ghana
title_short Strategies towards attainment of universal coverage of long lasting insecticide treated nets (LLINs) distribution: experiences and lessons from Ghana
title_sort strategies towards attainment of universal coverage of long lasting insecticide treated nets (llins) distribution: experiences and lessons from ghana
topic Letter to the Editor
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4722743/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26794136
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13071-016-1328-5
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