Kate Zinszer1,2, Katia Charland1, Sarah Vahey2, Deepa Jahagirdar3, John C Rek4, Emmanuel Arinaitwe4, Joaniter Nankabirwa4, Kathryn Morrison5, Margaux L Sadoine1,2, Marc-Antoine Tutt-Guérette1,2, Sarah G Staedke6, Moses R Kamya4,7, Bryan Greenhouse8, Isabel Rodriguez-Barraquer8, Grant Dorsey8. 1. Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. 2. Centre de recherche en santé publique, University of Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. 3. Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, Seattle, Washington, USA. 4. Infectious Disease Research Collaboration, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda. 5. Precision Analytics, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. 6. Department of Clinical Research, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom. 7. Department of Medicine, Makerere University College of Health Sciences, Kampala, Uganda. 8. Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Indoor residual spraying (IRS) is widely used as a vector control measure, although there are conflicting findings of its effectiveness in reducing malaria incidence. The objective of this study was to estimate the effect of multiple IRS rounds on malaria incidence and hemoglobin levels in a cohort of children in rural southeastern Uganda. METHODS: The study was based upon a dynamic cohort of children aged 0.5-10 years enrolled from August 2011 to June 2017 in Nagongera Subcounty. Confirmed malaria infections and hemoglobin levels were recorded over time for each participant. After each of 4 rounds of IRS, malaria incidence, hemoglobin levels, and parasite density were evaluated and compared with pre-IRS levels. Analyses were carried out at the participant level while accounting for repeated measures and clustering by household. RESULTS: Incidence rate ratios comparing post-IRS to pre-IRS incidence rates for age groups 0-3, 3-5, and 5-11 were 0.108 (95% confidence interval [CI], .078-.149), 0.173 (95% CI, .136-.222), and 0.226 (95% CI, .187-.274), respectively. The mean hemoglobin levels significantly increased from 11.01 (pre-IRS) to 12.18 g/dL (post-IRS). CONCLUSIONS: Our study supports the policy recommendation of IRS usage in a stable and perennial transmission area to rapidly reduce malaria transmission.
BACKGROUND: Indoor residual spraying (IRS) is widely used as a vector control measure, although there are conflicting findings of its effectiveness in reducing malaria incidence. The objective of this study was to estimate the effect of multiple IRS rounds on malaria incidence and hemoglobin levels in a cohort of children in rural southeastern Uganda. METHODS: The study was based upon a dynamic cohort of children aged 0.5-10 years enrolled from August 2011 to June 2017 in Nagongera Subcounty. Confirmed malaria infections and hemoglobin levels were recorded over time for each participant. After each of 4 rounds of IRS, malaria incidence, hemoglobin levels, and parasite density were evaluated and compared with pre-IRS levels. Analyses were carried out at the participant level while accounting for repeated measures and clustering by household. RESULTS: Incidence rate ratios comparing post-IRS to pre-IRS incidence rates for age groups 0-3, 3-5, and 5-11 were 0.108 (95% confidence interval [CI], .078-.149), 0.173 (95% CI, .136-.222), and 0.226 (95% CI, .187-.274), respectively. The mean hemoglobin levels significantly increased from 11.01 (pre-IRS) to 12.18 g/dL (post-IRS). CONCLUSIONS: Our study supports the policy recommendation of IRS usage in a stable and perennial transmission area to rapidly reduce malaria transmission.
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