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Table 2 Awareness, ownership, and use of nets and ITNs, by country and year

From: Gains in awareness, ownership and use of insecticide-treated nets in Nigeria, Senegal, Uganda and Zambia

 

NIGERIA

SENEGAL

ZAMBIA

UGANDA

 

2000

2004

2000

2004

2000

2004

2000

2006

% respondents aware of treated nets

7.3

60.3

70.0

97.3

50.7

88.3

23.2

97.6

N

1000

2000

1000

2000

1000

2000

1000

2122

% HH owning a net

12.0

26.7

33.6

56.1

26.5

50.0

30.4

44.4

Average number of nets owned

1.3

1.7

2.1

2.8

1.4

1.8

1.6

1.6

% HH owning ever-treated net

0.0

9.8

11.0

42.8

9.5

40.3

2.3

24.1

% HH owning currently-treated net (ITN)

0.0

8.9

8.2

38.7

5.5

34.6

1.4

20.9

% HH owning a baby net (non-hanging)

*

39.9

*

9.5

*

1.4

*

1.0

N

1000

2000

1000

2000

1000

2000

1000

2122

% of nets never treated

99.4

70.0

69.8

49.0

64.2

20.0

92.3

52.0

% nets ever treated

0.6

30.5

30.2

72.9

35.8

80.3

7.7

48.1

% ITNs (treated within 12 months)

0.0

27.1

23.4

65.0

21.5

65.6

4.6

40.4

N

159

856

649

2579

363

1734

586

1734

% children < 5 slept under a net last night

8.8

§10.3

17.7

35.4

11.9

24.6

20.5

29.6

% children < 5 slept under a net or a baby net last night

*

17.9

*

37.6

*

24.7

*

*

% children < 5 slept under an ITN last night

0.0

3.3

4.6

23.9

2.4

16.9

1.2

13.5

N

1402

3054

1811

4116

1470

2862

1361

3124

% pregnant women sleeping under a net

7.3

14.1

21.7

41.7

3.9

21.5

17.3

29.4

% pregnant women sleeping under an ITN

0

4.4

5.0

31.0

0

13.5

1.3

13.3

N

96

249

120

290

76

237

130

362

  1. * Data not collected
  2. § This is the only increase that is not statistically significant at the p < 0.05 level; in this case p = 0.07