Malaria and children: Progress in intervention coverage - Unicef

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Figure 10 Rapid progress in scaling up insecticide-treated net use across all sub- Saharan African
countries with trend data
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Trends in
insecticidetreated
net use
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Roll Back Malaria target for 2010
Percentage of children
under age five sleeping
under an insecticidetreated
net, sub-Saharan
Africa, 2000–2005
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Roll Back Malaria (Abuja) target for 2005
Around 2000
40
38 39
42
49
Around 2005
20
0
Kenya (2000, 2003)
3 5 5
2
Sierra Leone (2000, 2005)
Côte d’Ivoire (2000, 2006)
6
1 1
7 7
2
1
8
2
10 10
0 1
Niger (2000, 2006)
Senegal (2000, 2005)
Burundi (2000, 2005)
Burkina Faso (2003, 2006)
Uganda (2000–2001, 2006)
Cameroon (2000, 2006)
13 13
4
15
2 2
16
Rwanda (2000, 2005)
Central African Republic (2000, 2006)
Tanzania, United Rep. of (1999, 2004–2005)
7
20
4
22
3
23 23
1
2
7
23
15
Benin (2001, 2006)
Ghana (2003, 2006)
Malawi (2000, 2006)
Zambia (1999, 2006)
Togo (2000, 2006)
Guinea-Bissau (2000, 2006)
São Tomé & Principe (2000, 2006)
Gambia, The (2000, 2006)
Note:
Some sub-Saharan
African countries have
a significant population
share living in nonmalarious
areas.
National-level estimates
may obscure higher
coverage in endemic
subnational areas
targeted by programmes
(see annex A).
Source:
UNICEF global malaria
database, based on 20
Sub-Saharan African
countries with available
trend data for around
2000 and 2005.
Therefore, insecticide-treated net use in these
countries has likely increased significantly, but
data are not yet available to document these
major gains. Other countries with more recent
data show much higher insecticide-treated net
use rates for children under age five, including
The Gambia (49 per cent in 2006), São Tomé
and Principe (42 per cent in 2006), Guinea-Bissau
(39 per cent in 2006) and Togo (38 per cent
in 2006). 18
Significant progress in insecticide-treated net use
Rapid gains have been made in insecticide-treated
net use by children across all sub- Saharan African
countries with available trend data in a short
period of time and from a very low baseline. In
fact, 16 of 20 countries with trend data available
have at least tripled coverage since 2000 (figure
10). Between 2000 and 2005 the proportion of children
sleeping under insecticide-treated nets based
on a subset of 20 countries covering nearly half the