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Table A-12.3 Indoor residual spraying against mosquitoes: Districts<br />

Percentage of households in which someone has come into the dwelling to spray the interior walls<br />

against mosquitoes (IRS) in the past 12 months, the percentage of households with at least one<br />

ITN and/or IRS in the past 12 months, and the percentage of households with at least one ITN for<br />

every two persons and/or IRS in the past 12 months, according to district, <strong>Malawi</strong> DHS <strong>2015</strong>-<strong>16</strong><br />

District<br />

Percentage of<br />

households with<br />

IRS 1 in the past<br />

12 months<br />

Percentage of<br />

households with<br />

at least one ITN 2<br />

and/or IRS 1 in<br />

the past 12<br />

months<br />

Percentage of<br />

households with<br />

at least one ITN 2<br />

for every two<br />

persons and/or<br />

IRS 1 in the past<br />

12 months<br />

Number of<br />

households<br />

Northern<br />

Chitipa 0.2 56.0 25.9 270<br />

Karonga 34.4 77.6 54.2 512<br />

Likoma 0.0 50.1 33.0 19<br />

Mzimba 1.2 54.0 22.0 1,515<br />

Nkhata Bay 4.4 60.4 25.8 349<br />

Rumphi 0.7 59.9 24.5 295<br />

Total 7.2 59.6 28.7 2,960<br />

Central<br />

Dedza 4.2 60.3 27.1 1,212<br />

Dowa 0.4 74.8 34.3 1,179<br />

Kasungu 1.2 51.1 18.4 1,045<br />

Lilongwe 4.8 51.5 24.6 3,998<br />

Mchinji 27.7 83.2 51.7 766<br />

Nkhotakota 10.2 85.6 54.8 523<br />

Ntcheu 0.2 56.2 28.5 1,014<br />

Ntchisi 0.2 48.0 <strong>16</strong>.6 473<br />

Salima 19.7 59.4 33.1 742<br />

Total 6.2 59.6 29.2 10,952<br />

Southern<br />

Balaka 1.5 59.3 22.0 671<br />

Blantyre 0.4 59.1 29.1 1,999<br />

Chikhwawa 17.2 54.1 30.2 853<br />

Chiradzulu 4.2 58.7 25.8 608<br />

Machinga 1.0 56.6 18.8 991<br />

Mangochi 5.2 50.4 18.5 1,656<br />

Mulanje 5.6 55.9 21.7 1,243<br />

Mwanza 0.1 78.0 46.0 204<br />

Neno 2.0 71.6 33.0 261<br />

Nsanje 7.5 61.4 25.3 426<br />

Phalombe 1.0 71.6 34.6 700<br />

Thyolo 0.5 43.6 17.9 1,297<br />

Zomba 0.7 64.6 25.5 1,542<br />

Total 3.3 57.5 24.6 12,449<br />

Total 4.9 58.6 27.0 26,361<br />

1<br />

Indoor residual spraying (IRS) is limited to spraying conducted by a government, private or nongovernmental<br />

organization<br />

2<br />

An insecticide-treated net (ITN) is (1) a factory-treated net that does not require any further<br />

treatment (LLIN), or (2) a net that has been soaked with insecticide within the past 12 months<br />

Appendix A • 389

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