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Table 1 Reasons for using and not using bed nets

From: Sleeping arrangement and house structure affect bed net use in villages along Lake Victoria

 

Number

%

Reasons for using bed nets

  

   To prevent mosquitoes biting

79

91.9

   To prevent getting malaria

7

8.1

   Number of interviewees

86

100.0

Reasons for not using bed nets

  

   There are no mosquitoes

5

20.0

   There are no extra nets (but some one has an extra one)

3

12.0

   Net is old

3

12.0

   Net is new

1

4.0

   We lost it

1

4.0

   We use it for storing millet

1

4.0

   It is hot

1

4.0

   There is a sick person

1

4.0

   No reason

9

36.0

   Number of interviewees

25

100.0