Sponsored Research Projects

Zambia ITN use promotion: a community randomized controlled trial

Effective dates: 10/2008 – 10/2010
Funding source: CDC
Tulane Role: Lead
Country: Zambia
Principal Investigator: Thomas Eisele, PhD

The focus of this study is to: 1) test if a village-based interpersonal communication (IPC) intervention increases the proportion of children using ITNs within households possessing them within the context of a large-scale ITN distribution program in the Luangwa District of Zambia 2) determine the costs associated with achieving such increased ITN use; and 3) as a results of aims 1 and 2, identify household, community and policy-level factors that facilitate or impede ITN use among children. Our long-term goal is to provide public health scientists and officials with an effective intervention to optimize ITN uptake and use among children and pregnant women as they become more widely available through the scale-up of national distribution programs.