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Table 3 Household malaria prevention measures, Abia and Plateau states, Nigeria, September 2010

From: Malaria prevalence, anemia and baseline intervention coverage prior to mass net distributions in Abia and Plateau States, Nigeria

 

Abia (n = 1,305)

Plateau (n = 1,335)

Percent of households that received IRS in past 12 months (95% CI)

0.4% (0.1–1.4)

0.6% (0.3–1.5)

Percent of households owning at least one net (95% CI)

10.1% (7.5–13.4)

35.1% (29.2–41.5)*

Percent of households owning two or more nets (95% CI)

2.1% (1.2–3.7)

14.5% (10.2–20.3)*

Percent of households with at least one net for every two people (95% CI) – all households

1.4% (0.8–2.1)

6.3% (3.8–8.8)*

Percent of households with at least one net for every two people (95% CI) – households with at least one net

14.2% (8.8–19.6)

18.1% (13.3–23.0)

Mean number of nets per household (95% CI) – all households

0.1 (0.1–0.2)

0.6 (0.4–0.7)*

Mean number of nets per household (95% CI) – households with at least one net

1.2 (1.1–1.3)

1.7 (1.5–1.8)*

Percent of population with access to net within a household (assuming net used by two people) (95% CI)

8.2% (3.7-6.9)

23.8% (14.5-24.1)*

  1. *Asterisk indicates statistically significant difference between states (non-overlapping 95% confidence intervals).