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Figure 14.7a Households that owned at least one mosquito bednet by province andrural/urban residence, <strong>Kenya</strong> <strong>2007</strong>.100<strong>National</strong>Target: 80%Percent of Households with at Least 1 Net (%)8060402053.234.171.263.343.678.640.871.754.859.856.10Nairobi Central Coast Eastern NE Nyanza RiftValleyWestern Rural Urban TotalFigure 14.7a Bednet ownership was marginally higher in urban households than inrural households.Bednet ownership varied significantly by province. Given that the need for mosquito nets is notuniform across the country, coverage of nets is also not expected to be uniform. In the <strong>2007</strong> <strong>KAIS</strong>,Nyanza, Western and Coast provinces had the highest coverage, ranging from 71.2% to 78.6% ofhouseholds; malaria is endemic in these provinces and risk is year‐round. Coverage in Centralprovince appeared to be low at 34.1%, but most parts of this province (and Nairobi) are notconsidered malaria zones. In <strong>2007</strong>, the gap between rural and urban household net ownership hadnarrowed to five percentage points (54.8% and 59.8%, respectively) from 21 percentage points in2003 (16.6% in rural households compared to 37.6%). Nonetheless, in <strong>2007</strong>, the percent ofhouseholds owning at least one bednet was marginally higher in urban households than in ruralhouseholds.<strong>KAIS</strong> <strong>2007</strong> 256

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