Community Perceptions on Different Delivery Mechanisms for Insecticide-Treated Bed Nets in Rural Burkina Faso
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Community Perceptions on Different Delivery Mechanisms for Insecticide- Treated Bed Nets in Rural Burkina Faso
Background: This study aims to describe the community perceptions regarding an insecticide-treated bed net (ITN) programme in Burkina Faso, where communities were randomised to either ITN social marketing combined with free ITN distribution through antenatal care services (intervention A) or ITN social marketing only (intervention B). Methods: For this descriptive qualitative study data were co...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Open Public Health Journal
سال: 2008
ISSN: 1874-9445
DOI: 10.2174/1874944500801010017